EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS: Requires a recreation or meal period for minors under sixteen years of age
This bill updates employment rules to require that minors under sixteen receive a thirty-minute break for meals or recreation during any five-hour work shift. The law allows for a small amount of flexibility, treating a ten-minute overrun of the five-hour limit or a twenty-minute break as minor errors that do not count as violations. Employers must document these breaks using their standard timekeeping systems and must also write down any corrections made to a minor's clock-in or clock-out times. These changes directly affect businesses that hire young workers and aim to ensure they have regular rest periods without adding significant administrative burdens.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 23, 2024
Signed Jun 11, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 21, 2024 · House Apr 24, 2024
How they voted
24–11
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 21, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Nay
R
Republican25
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 63, nays 28, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 21, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 13, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 61, nays 37. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (10-3).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Feb 23, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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