S 1921 United States Senate · 118th Congress

Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to prohibit children under 18 from having direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves in agricultural work. It directly affects minors working on tobacco farms by adding this specific restriction to existing child labor protections. The key mechanism updates the law to explicitly exclude tobacco-related agriculture from exemptions that previously allowed certain youth employment in farming, closing a gap that permitted underage labor in this sector. The change applies to all tobacco farming operations covered under federal labor law.
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Introduced Jun 12, 2023 Last action Jun 12, 2023
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Jun 12, 2023
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