NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6245
SPONSOR: Barnwell TITLE OF BILL: CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY rati-
fying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States
relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Relates to ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of
age.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Ratifying an amendment to the federal constitution in relations to
having the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons
under eighteen years of age.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Child Labor Amendment was submitted to the states by Congress in
1924 for ratification as a part of the federal Constitution and has now
been pending ever since. Currently, 28 states have ratified this amend-
ment and 15 states have rejected and did not subsequently ratify it. New
York is one of five states that have no record of taking any action on
this amendment. While the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 went on to
cover the issues in the Child Labor Amendment, ratification of the
amendment will put New York on the right side of history.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: Assembly:
03/15/18 - Referred to Judiciary
03/16/18 - To Attorney General for opinion
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the said Consti-
tution when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several
states.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6245
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United
States relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age
1 WHEREAS, at the first session of the sixty-eighth Congress it was
2 resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
3 of America in Congress Assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring
4 therein), that the following article be proposed as an amendment to the
5 Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents
6 and purposes as a part of the said Constitution when ratified by the
7 Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, viz.:
8 ARTICLE
9 Section 1. The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and
10 prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.
11 Section 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this arti-
12 cle except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the
13 extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
14 Now, therefore, be it
15 Resolved, That the legislature of the State of New York does hereby
16 ratify the above recited proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
17 United States; and be it further,
18 Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to transmit a
19 certified copy of this concurrent resolution to the Administrator of
20 General Services of the United States of America.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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