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Committee approves amendment to make employers criminally liable for knowing child-labor violations
Summary
Senators adopted an amendment to SB390 that narrows the language to hold 'employers' who 'knowingly' violate child-labor laws criminally liable; the bill creates misdemeanor penalties on initial offenses and raised penalties for subsequent violations, and passed the committee as amended.
The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted and passed an amendment to SB390 to simplify the culpability language and focus criminal liability on employers who knowingly violate child-labor statutes.
Senator Tucker and co-sponsors explained the amendment replaces a long enumerated list (person, firm, corporation, partnership, parent, guardian,…
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