HB 102 — Child labor, to eliminate the eligibility to work form.

HB102 INTRODUCEDENGROSSED HB102 HVM7668-1XCPDEZ7-2 By Representative DuBose RFD:

05-Feb-24 Page 0 HVM7668-1HB102 1/16/2024Engrossed ANS2 (L)ma4 2023-3368A 2BILL 4TO SYNOPSIS:BE ENTITLED AN ACT 9 Relating to child labor;

Under existing law, a person 14 or 15 years of age is required to obtain an eligibility to work form to be able to work.

This bill would eliminate the eligibility to work form.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to child labor;

A form issued by the head administrator, counselor, or, if home schooled an instructor Page 1 HB102 INTRODUCED of the school which a 14- or 15-year-old minor attends certifying satisfactory grades and attendance of the minor in order for a 14- or 15-year-old minor to be employed.

Any person individual employed by an employer, but shall not include an individual engaged in the Page 1 HB102 Engrossed activities of an educational, charitable, religious, scientific, historical, literary, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist or where the services rendered are on a voluntary basis.

(b)(a) No personindividual, entity, franchise, Page 2 HB102 INTRODUCED corporation, or division of a corporation shall employ, permit, or suffer to work any personminor 14 or 15 years of age in any occupation, except in agricultural service, unless the personindividual, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation procures and keeps on file for the inspection by the officials charged with the enforcement of this chapter, an eligibility to work form for every person 14 Page 2 HB102 Engrossed or 15 years of age and a complete list of those personsindividuals 14 or 15 years of age employed therein with the employer.

(e)(d)(c)(d) The employment of a minor 14 or 15 years of age shall be revoked or suspended by the department if the minor's regular school attendance and performance record is not satisfactory to the head administrator, or, if home schooled Page 3 HB102 INTRODUCED an instructor, of the school which the minor attends.

(f)(e) Any personindividual, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation that wishes to employ, permit, or suffer to work any minor 16 or 17 years of age in any occupation, except in agricultural service, shall Page 3 HB102 Engrossed obtain a Class II Child Labor Certificate from the department for each location where a personan individual, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation wishes to 95 employ a minor 16 or 17 years of age.

The 95 certificates shall be issued annually.

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Any other information as required by department Page 4 HB102 Engrossed regulation.

(3) If a personan individual, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation, employs a minor between 14 and 17 years of age without a proper child labor certificate, the personindividual, entity, franchise, corporation or division of a corporation shall pay a penalty of fifty dollars ($50) and then shall obtain a certificate in the proper manner."manner. Section 2.

(4) The parent, or guardian, of a minor 14 to 15 years old employed by an individual, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation shall notify the minor's head administrator, counselor, or, if home schooled an instructor of the school which the minor attends of the name, address, and telephone number of the person, entity, franchise, corporation, or division of a corporation employing the minor." Section 2.

Page 5 HB102 Engrossed House of Representatives Read for the first time and referred ................06-Feb-24 to the House of Representatives committee on Children and Senior Advocacy Read for the second time and placed ................06-Mar-24 on the calendar:

amendments Read for the third time and passed ................02-Apr-24 as amended Yeas 97, Nays 2, Abstains 3 John Treadwell Clerk Page 6