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Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as oppressive child labor.

Introduced May 13, 2025

Latest action (May 13, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Labor and Employment
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary
  • Prohibits employment of children under 18 years old who have direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves.
  • Classifies such employment as oppressive child labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
  • Removes tobacco-related agriculture from exemptions that currently apply to manufacturing and mining child labor restrictions.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
62 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Rosa L. Delauro’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • YALE UNIVERSITY $13,483
  • RTX $10,800
  • CRD ASSOCIATES $10,300
  • Employer not reported $8,800
  • ARNOLD & PORTER $7,300

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Rosa L. Delauro → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. May 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. May 13, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1742 — Children Don't Belong on Tobacco Farms Act · Introduced May 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 94%
  • HR 3997 — Protecting Children Act · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 3664 — Tobacco Program Administrative Reform Act of 1998 · Introduced Apr 10, 1998 · Cong. 105 64%
  • HR 3867 — LEAF Act · Introduced Jun 15, 1998 · Cong. 105 62%
  • HR 3437 — Tobacco Market Transition Act · Introduced Apr 14, 1998 · Cong. 105 62%
  • HR 3155 — Child Care for American Families Act · Introduced May 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · May 13, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 13, 2025

Ms. DeLauro (for herself, Ms. Chu, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Takano, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Scholten, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Garcia of Illinois) 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 prohibit employment of children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as oppressive child labor.

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 “Children Don’t Belong on Tobacco Farms Act”.

SEC. 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 tobacco-related agriculture as described in paragraph (3) of the first sentence of this subsection,”. <all>

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