Bill Details
HR.1193 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-11 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced Date
2025-02-11
Policy Area
Labor and Employment
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This bill would change federal child labor rules for certain logging and timber-harvesting jobs. It creates special definitions for logging businesses that use machinery and updates how the law treats 16- and 17-year-olds who work in those operations. In plain terms, it would make it easier for older teens to work in parts of the timber industry, while still keeping some limits on the most dangerous work.
- It defines a “timber harvesting employer” and a “mechanized timber harvesting employer” to cover logging work such as cutting, moving, loading, transporting, and processing timber.
- It also includes related work like building or fixing logging roads and camps, maintaining logging equipment, and other jobs tied to logging.
- The bill lists many kinds of machinery used in these operations, such as feller-bunchers, forwarders, chippers, grinders, skidder equipment, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log loaders.
- For 16- and 17-year-olds in these businesses, the bill would keep child labor rules in place for jobs the Labor Secretary says are especially dangerous, but it would make an exception for work in a business owned or run by a parent or someone acting as a parent.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1193 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1193
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain 16- and
17-year-old individuals employed in timber harvesting entities or
mechanized timber harvesting entities from child labor laws, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 11, 2025
Mr. Golden of Maine (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Ms.
Pingree, and Mr. Fulcher) 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 exempt certain 16- and
17-year-old individuals employed in timber harvesting entities or
mechanized timber harvesting entities from child labor laws, and for
other purposes.
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 in Logging Careers Act''.
SEC. 2. CHILD LABOR LAW EXEMPTIONS FOR TIMBER HARVESTING ENTITIES AND
MECHANIZED TIMBER HARVESTING ENTITIES.
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), by adding at the end the
following:
``(z)(1) `Timber harvesting employer' means an employer engaged
in--
``(A) the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and
processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated
chainsaws and cable skidders;
``(B) the felling of timber in mechanized operations;
``(C) the bucking or converting of timber into logs, poles,
ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood,
fence posts, or similar products;
``(D) the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading,
transporting and unloading of such products in connection with
logging;
``(E) 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
``(F) other work performed in connection with logging.
``(2) `Mechanized timber harvesting employer'--
``(A) means an employer engaged in the felling, skidding,
yarding, loading and processing of timber by equipment other
than manually operated chainsaws and cable skidders; and
``(B) includes an employer engaged in the use of 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. 213(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 by a timber
harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer 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 a timber harvesting employer
or mechanized timber harvesting employer owned or operated by a parent
or a person standing in the place of a parent of such employee.''.
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