2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st)                                                                         A AB74 R1 709

Amendment No. 709

 

Senate Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 74  First Reprint                                                  (BDR 53‑659)

Proposed by: Committee on Commerce and Labor

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendment No. 670.

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends:         Summary:              Title:              Preamble:               Joint Sponsorship:

 

ASSEMBLY ACTION              Initial and Date              |SENATE ACTION                        Initial and Date

       Adopted       Lost                                               |          Adopted       Lost                                           

Concurred In                     Not                                                        |Concurred In  Not                                 

       Receded        Not                                               |         Receded        Not                                           

 

   Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sec. 2 and adding a new section designated sec. 2, following section 1, to read as follows:

   “Sec. 2. 1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the labor commissioner shall adopt regulations prohibiting the employment of a child under the age of 16 years in connection with the solicitation for sale or selling of any product, good or service at any time or place or in any manner the labor commissioner determines to be dangerous to the health or welfare of such a child.

   2.  The labor commissioner shall not prohibit the employment of a child under the age of 16 years in connection with the solicitation for sale or selling of:

   (a) Any product, good or service in a county whose population is less than 100,000; or

   (b) Any agricultural product at a fixed location directly to consumers and not for resale.

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This subsection does not authorize the employment of a child in violation of a specific statute.

   3.  No child under the age of 16 years may be employed, permitted or required to work in any capacity, including, without limitation, as an independent contractor, in connection with the solicitation for sale or selling of any product, good or service at any time or place or in any manner prohibited by the labor commissioner pursuant to subsection 1.”.

     Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sections 4 through 6 as sections 5 through 7 and adding a new section designated sec. 4, following sec. 3, to read as follows:

     “Sec. 4. NRS 609.200 is hereby amended to read as follows:

     609.200  [The] Except as otherwise provided in section 2 of this act, the labor commissioner may[, from time to time,] determine whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture[,] or occupation, or any particular method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occupation is sufficiently dangerous to the lives or limbs, or injurious to the health or morals, of minors under 16 years of age employed therein to justify their exclusion therefrom, and may prohibit their employment therein.”.

     Amend the title of the bill, first line, after “children;” by inserting:

“requiring the labor commissioner to adopt regulations”.

     Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:

“SUMMARY—Requires labor commissioner to adopt regulations prohibiting employment of children under 16 years of age in certain activities relating to commercial sales. (BDR 53-659)”.