[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1742 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1742

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2025

 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Reed) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of 
   children in tobacco-related agriculture 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 (as described in paragraph (3) of 
        the first sentence of this subsection) tobacco-related 
        agriculture,''.
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