119-hr3335

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3335 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3335

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

 May 13, 2025

Ms. DeLauro (for herself, Ms. Chu, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Takano, Mrs. Hayes, 
 Ms. Norton, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Scholten, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. Jayapal, 
 Mr. Pocan, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Garcia of Illinois) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
 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 ``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 the 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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