[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4190 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4190

   To require the Secretary of Labor to declare that operating power 
driven amusement park rides is a hazardous occupation for the purposes 
 of certain child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
                                 1938.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2004

  Mr. Markey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Labor to declare that operating power 
driven amusement park rides is a hazardous occupation for the purposes 
 of certain child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
                                 1938.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Amusement Park Ride Child Labor Act 
of 2004''.

SEC. 2. DECLARATION OF HAZARDOUS OCCUPATION.

    For the purposes of section 3(l) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 203(l)), the Secretary of Labor is directed to find, 
and by order declare, that operating power driven amusement park rides 
is particularly hazardous for children between the ages of 16 and 18.
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