[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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