H.R.2674 - Children's Act for Responsible Employment of 2007

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase penalties for violations of child labor laws, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)

All Bill Titles

  • Short: Children's Act for Responsible Employment of 2007 as introduced.
  • Official: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase penalties for violations of child labor laws, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Short: CARE Act of 2007 as introduced.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

Bill's Views

  • Today: 4
  • Past Seven Days: 16
  • All-Time: 1,609
 
Introduced
 
House
Passes
 
Senate
Passes
 
President
Signs
 

 
06/11/07
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Official Summary

6/12/2007--Introduced.Children's Act for Responsible Employment of 2007 or the CARE Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to repeal certain exemptions from child labor prohibitions for agricultural employment. Allows an exemption only if: (1) the agricultura

Official Summary

6/12/2007--Introduced.
Children's Act for Responsible Employment of 2007 or the CARE Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to repeal certain exemptions from child labor prohibitions for agricultural employment. Allows an exemption only if:
(1) the agricultural employment of an individual under 16 occurs outside of school hours; and
(2) such individual is employed by a parent or a person standing in place of a parent on a farm owned or operated by such parent or person. Raises from 16 to 18 years old the minimum age for engaging in hazardous agricultural employment. Eliminates a waiver for hand-harvesting of certain crops.
Increases civil and criminal penalties for child labor violations.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to analyze data and report to Congress on work-related injuries to children and related matters. Requires employers to report on work-related serious injuries and illnesses, and deaths, of agricultural employees under 18 years of age. Incorporates into FLSA child labor requirements certain federal standards for protecting workers exposed to pesticides. Reconciles civil penalties for violations of such standards affecting child workers imposed by the Secretary under FLSA and by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

...Read the Rest

FEED

Recent News Coverage

Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.

FEED

Recent Blog Coverage

View All (11)  |  View Top Rated

06/02/09
H.R.2674: Protecting America's Children Act of 2009 - U.S. ...

Blog - OpenCongress. Proposed Bill HR-2674 Prote... Submitted by Mary on Jun 16. Amendment No. 601 to the Om... Submitted by Winifred on Mar 3. You can submit a tip anonymously, or attributed to your own name and e-mail, ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
12/02/08
derivative work » Blog Archive » new US Trade Rep; same bad ...

He’s also done some pro-librarian work, for example, seeking to add librarians to loan forgiveness plans, e.g., by introducing the Librarian Education & Development Act of 2003 (HR 2674). LIS News 2004/6/9 ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
09/22/08
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Child Labor

Although the hearing did not specifically address any pending legislation, several witnesses expressed their support for the “Children’s Act for Responsible Employment of 2007″ (”CARE Act”) (HR 2674), which is co-sponsored by ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate




Users supporting H.R.2674 (1) are also:








Vote on This Bill

100% Users Support Bill

1 in favor / 0 opposed
 

Send Your Rep a Letter

about this bill Support Oppose Tracking
Track with MyOC
Save to Notebook Make A Bill Widget

OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. The non-profit Sunlight Foundation is the Founding and Primary Supporter of OpenCongress.