By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte) H.B. No. 581

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 2007; April 11, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; May 22, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 581 By: Estes

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to exempting from certain employment restrictions the employment of certain children engaged in the direct sale of newspapers to the general public.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 51.003(a), Labor Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) This chapter does not apply to employment of a child:

(1) employed:

(A) in a nonhazardous occupation;

(B) under the direct supervision of the child's parent or an adult having custody of the child; and

(C) in a business or enterprise owned or operated by the parent or custodian;

(2) 11 years or older engaged in delivery of newspapers to the consumer;

(3) participating in a school-supervised and school-administered work-study program approved by the commission;

(4) employed in agriculture during a period when the child is not legally required to be attending school;

(5) employed through a rehabilitation program supervised by a county judge; [or]

(6) engaged in nonhazardous casual employment that will not endanger the safety, health, or well-being of the child and to which the parent or adult having custody of the child has consented; or

(7) 16 years or older engaged in the direct sale of newspapers to the general public.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

* * * * *