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Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2] · D–ME
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-11 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed Future in Logging Careers Act would change federal child labor rules for 16- and 17-year-olds working in logging. It would create an exception for work classified by the Secretary of Labor as particularly hazardous when the logging employer is owned or operated by the young worker’s parent or someone acting in a parent’s place. The proposal covers both timber harvesting and mechanized logging employers.
This Act may be cited as the Future in Logging Careers Act.
(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to child labor shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 17 years old employed by a timber harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer in an occupation that the Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 17, except where such employee is employed by a timber harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer owned or operated by a parent or a person standing in the place of a parent of such employee.
The proposed definition of a timber harvesting employer covers businesses that cut and move timber, turn it into logs and other wood products, or transport those products in connection with logging. One part of the definition excludes manually operated chainsaws and cable skidders, but the other listed activities are not expressly subject to that equipment restriction.
(z) (1) Timber harvesting employer means an employer engaged in— (A) the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated chainsaws and cable skidders; (B) the felling of timber in mechanized operations; (C) the bucking or converting of timber into logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar products; (D) the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and unloading of such products in connection with logging;
The timber harvesting employer definition also reaches logging support work: building and maintaining roads or camps, constructing and maintaining logging machinery or equipment, and other work connected with logging.
(E) the constructing, repairing and maintaining of roads or camps used in connection with logging; the constructing, repairing, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging; and (F) other work performed in connection with logging.
The bill would separately define a mechanized timber harvesting employer as one using equipment other than manually operated chainsaws and cable skidders to cut, move, load and process timber. Its equipment list includes tree processors, chippers, grinders, bulldozers, excavators and log loaders.
(2) Mechanized timber harvesting employer— (A) means an employer engaged in the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated chainsaws and cable skidders; and (B) includes an employer engaged in the use of whole tree processors, cut-to-length processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled and track feller-bunchers, pull thru delimbers, wheeled and track forwarders, chippers, grinders, mechanical debarkers, wheeled and track grapple skidders, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log loaders.
The proposed rule would apply section 12’s child labor provisions to 16- and 17-year-old employees of either defined employer type in occupations the Secretary of Labor declares particularly hazardous for those ages. It would make an exception when the employer is owned or operated by the employee’s parent or someone acting in a parent’s place; ownership and operation are alternative ways to qualify.
(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to child labor shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 17 years old employed by a timber harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer in an occupation that the Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 17, except where such employee is employed by a timber harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer owned or operated by a parent or a person standing in the place of a parent of such employee.
The supplied action snapshot, updated June 10, 2026, records that the bill was introduced in the House and referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce on February 11, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-06-10T08:07:37Z. 2025-02-11: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. 2025-02-11: Introduced in House
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The supplied introduced text contains a narrow family-based exception within its central child labor policy. This classification describes the exception without judging its merits.
The proposal would give timber harvesting and mechanized timber harvesting employers owned or operated by a worker’s parent, or someone acting in the parent’s place, an exception from the proposed application of section 12 child labor provisions to that 16- or 17-year-old in particularly hazardous work. Eligibility turns on the family relationship and the employer’s ownership or operation.
(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to child labor shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 17 years old employed by a timber harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer in an occupation that the Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 17, except where such employee is employed by a timber harvesting employer or mechanized timber harvesting employer owned or operated by a parent or a person standing in the place of a parent of such employee.
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