To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of children in tobacco-related agriculture as oppressive child labor.
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as “Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act”.
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,”.