[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2878 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2878

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of 
 children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as 
                        oppressive child labor.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2017

Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Capuano, Mr. 
 Cartwright, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, 
 Mr. Hastings, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Roybal-Allard, 
 Mr. Schiff, and Mr. Takano) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of 
 children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as 
                        oppressive child labor.

    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 ``Children Don't Belong on Tobacco 
Farms Act''.

SEC. 2. TOBACCO-RELATED AGRICULTURE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

    Section 3(l) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203(l)) is amended--
            (1) in this first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``in any occupation, or (2)'' and 
                inserting ``in any occupation, (2)''; and
                    (B) by inserting before the semicolon the 
                following: ``, or (3) any employee under the age of 
                eighteen years has direct contact with tobacco plants 
                or dried tobacco leaves''; and
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``other than 
        manufacturing and mining'' and inserting ``, other than 
        manufacturing, mining, and tobacco-related agriculture as 
        described in paragraph (3) of the first sentence of this 
        subsection,''.
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