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Shown Here: Introduced in House (03/09/2017)
[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[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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