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                                                                  H.B. No. 2930




AN ACT

relating to an age limitation on children engaged in the 
performance of duties related to a paper route.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 51.002, Labor Code, is amended to read as 
follows:       
	Sec. 51.002.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:                                   
		(1)  "Child" means an individual under 18 years of age.                       
		(2)  "Commission" means the Texas Workforce
[Employment] Commission.
		(3)  "Delivery of newspapers" means the distribution of 
newspapers on or the maintenance of a newspaper route.  The term 
does not include direct sales of newspapers to the general public.
	SECTION 2.  Section 51.003, Labor Code, is amended to read as 
follows:       
	Sec. 51.003.  GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.  (a)  This chapter does not 
apply to employment of a child:
		(1)  employed [in a]:                                        
			(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.
	(b)  In this section, "employment in agriculture" means 
engaged in producing crops or livestock and includes:
		(1)  cultivating and tilling the soil;                                        
		(2)  producing, cultivating, growing, and harvesting 
an agricultural or horticultural commodity;
		(3)  dairying; and                                                            
		(4)  raising livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or 
poultry.              
	(c)  For the purposes of Subsection (a)(6), the commission by 
rule may define nonhazardous casual employment that the commission 
determines is dangerous to the safety, health, or well-being of a 
child.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2005.




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2930 was passed by the House on April 
27, 2005, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2930 was passed by the Senate on May 
19, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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                 Governor