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Rep. Hendricks asks committee to back bill targeting child labor in seafood processing
Summary
Representative Hendricks urged the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to report favorably on House Bill 17‑44 after federal investigations found children employed in fish processing under hazardous conditions; the bill would add seafood processing to prohibited workplaces for 16‑ and 17‑year‑olds and increase civil and criminal penalties.
Representative Dan Hendricks opened the public testimony portion on House Bill 17‑44, “an act to prevent child labor exploitation and trafficking,” telling the Joint Committee on the Judiciary that the proposal responds to federal investigations into unlawful employment of minors in seafood processing.
Hendricks said the federal Department of Labor found “dozens…
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