Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

United States118th CongressHR-4020House of Representatives
Updated: Jun 12, 2023

Summary

Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act This bill prohibits an individual under the age of 18 from performing work that has direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves by specifying that the work is oppressive child labor. (Oppressive child labor is generally prohibited under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, with some exceptions.)

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Timeline

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S-1921: Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

    House of Representatives

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