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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 324

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Relating to: the employment of minors.

Child labor Hours of labor

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, with certain employment exceptions, no minor under 16

years of age may work before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. from the day after Labor

Day to May 31, or before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. from June 1 to Labor Day. These

work hour requirements are consistent with federal law.

This bill expands the permissible work hours a minor under 16 years of age may

work to not before 6:00 a.m. or after 9:30 p.m. on a day preceding a school day, and

not before 6:00 a.m. or after 11:00 p.m. on a day preceding a nonschool day, when the

minor is working for an employer that is not covered by the federal Fair Labor

Standards Act, and whose employees are not covered by the federal Fair Labor

Standards Act. Minors under 16 years of age who are employed after 10:00 p.m. must

receive at least eight consecutive hours of rest from the end of one shift to the

beginning of the next shift.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Brooks (R) , Callahan (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Knodl (R) , Krug (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Sortwell (R) , Steffen (R) , Wichgers (R)

4 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Jan 18, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. May 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Loudenbeck, Knodl, Sortwell, Callahan, Mursau, Armstrong, Bowen, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Krug, Kuglitsch, Magnafici, Murphy, Rozar, Schraa, Steffen and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Felzkowski, Ballweg, Marklein and Nass

  2. May 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment

  3. Sep 29, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 3, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Bowen withdrawn as a coauthor

  5. Dec 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  7. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-20-2022 by Committee on Rules

  9. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  10. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1