[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1454 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1454

 To exempt certain 16- and 17-year-old individuals employed in logging 
            or mechanized operations from child labor laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2017

 Mr. Labrador (for himself and Mr. Poliquin) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exempt certain 16- and 17-year-old individuals employed in logging 
            or mechanized operations from child labor laws.

    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 ``Future Logging Careers Act''.

SEC. 2. CHILD LABOR LAW EXEMPTIONS FOR LOGGING AND MECHANIZED 
              OPERATIONS.

    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203)--
                    (A) in subsection (l), by adding at the end the 
                following: ``, and that employment of employees ages 
                sixteen or seventeen years in a logging or mechanized 
                operation in an occupation that the Secretary of Labor 
                finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the 
                employment of individuals of such ages shall not be 
                deemed to constitute oppressive child labor if such 
                employee is employed by his parent or by a person 
                standing in the place of his parent in a logging or 
                mechanized operation owned or operated by such parent 
                or person''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(z)(1) `Logging'--
            ``(A) means--
                    ``(i) the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and 
                processing of timber by equipment other than manually 
                operated chainsaws and cable skidders;
                    ``(ii) the felling of timber in mechanized 
                operations;
                    ``(iii) the bucking or converting of timber into 
                logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, 
                excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar 
                products;
                    ``(iv) the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, 
                transporting and unloading of such products in 
                connection with logging;
                    ``(v) the constructing, repairing and maintaining 
                of roads or camps used in connection with logging; the 
                constructing, repairing, and maintenance of machinery 
                or equipment used in logging; and
                    ``(vi) other work performed in connection with 
                logging; and
            ``(B) does not include the manual use of chain saws to fell 
        and process timber and the use of cable skidders to bring the 
        timber to the landing.
    ``(2) `Mechanized operation'--
            ``(A) means the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and 
        processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated 
        chainsaws and cable skidders; and
            ``(B) includes whole tree processors, cut-to-length 
        processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled and track feller-
        bunchers, pull thru delimbers, wheeled and track forwarders, 
        chippers, grinders, mechanical debarkers, wheeled and track 
        grapple skidders, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log 
        loaders.''; and
            (2) in section 13(c) (29 U.S.C. 211(c)), by adding at the 
        end the following:
            ``(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to child labor 
        shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 17 years old employed 
        in a logging or mechanized operation in an occupation that the 
        Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly 
        hazardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 17, except 
        where such employee is employed by his parent or by a person 
        standing in the place of his parent in a logging or mechanized 
        operation owned or operated by such parent or person.''.
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