SENATE BILL 606

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

William P. Soules

AN ACT

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT; RESTRICTING THE HOURS THAT A CHILD WHO IS SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE MAY WORK ON SCHOOL NIGHTS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 50-6-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1925, Chapter 79, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

     "50-6-3. MAXIMUM HOURS [FOR] WORKED--CHILDREN FOURTEEN TO SIXTEEN AND SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN.--

          A. Children over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed or permitted to labor at any gainful occupation for more than forty hours in any one week nor more than eight hours in any one day when school is not in session unless otherwise provided for in the Child Labor Act.

          B. Children over the age of fourteen [or] and under the age of sixteen shall not be employed unless otherwise provided for in the Child Labor Act:

                (1) before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. during the calendar school year;

                (2) before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. outside of the calendar school year;

                (3) during school hours, except as provided for in work experience and career exploration programs;

                (4) more than three hours per day during school days; or

                (5) more than eighteen hours per week during school weeks.

          C. A child who is over the age of sixteen and younger than nineteen years of age shall not be employed before 7:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m. on a day that precedes an instructional day at the school in which the child is enrolled."

     SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this section is July 1, 2015.

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