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Protect Local Farms Act

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for the preemption of certain State overtime laws for agricultural employees.

Introduced Jan 7, 2025

Latest action (Jan 7, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Labor and Employment
Legislative subjects (3)
Labor standardsState and local government operationsWages and earnings

Summary

This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow federal law to preempt state overtime laws for agricultural employees. Specifically, it provides that federal law will override any state law that sets a maximum workweek for agricultural workers at less than 60 hours. The effect is that agricultural employees in states with stricter weekly hour limits would no longer be covered by those state protections, instead following the federal standard. The bill does not change federal overtime requirements themselves, only prevents states from imposing stricter limits on maximum weekly hours for farm workers.

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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. Jan 7, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 2270 — Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act · Introduced Jan 13, 2026 · Cong. 119 73%
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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 7, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 7, 2025

Ms. Tenney (for herself, Mr. Langworthy, and Mr. LaMalfa) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

A BILL

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for the preemption of certain State overtime laws for agricultural employees.

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 “Protect Local Farms Act”.

SEC. 2. PREEMPTION OF CERTAIN STATE OVERTIME LAWS FOR AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYEES.

Section 18 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 218) is amended—

(1) in subsection (a), by striking “No provision of this Act or of any order thereunder” and inserting “Except as provided in subsection (c), no provision of this Act or of any order thereunder”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

“(c) The provisions of this Act shall preempt any State law that provides for a maximum workweek for employees employed in agriculture of less than 60 hours.”. <all>

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