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H.R. 4157: Preserving America's Family Farms Act

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H.R. 4157: Preserving America's Family Farms Act

112th Congress · introduced 2012-03-07 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2012-03-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Preserving America's Family Farms Act

Plain summary

Preserving America's Family Farms Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from reissuing in substantially the same form, or issuing a new rule that is substantially the same as, the proposed rule "Child Labor Regulations, Orders and Statements of Interpretation; Child Labor Violations-Civil Money Penalties" (relating to child labor in agricultural and nonagricultural occupations) issued pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act and published on September 2, 2011.

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Official text

Preserving America's Family Farms Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4] · 95 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

John R. Carter (R-TX), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Michael K. Simpson (R-ID), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Robert E. Latta (R-OH), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), James Lankford (R-OK), Frank D. Lucas (R-OK), Sam Graves (R-MO), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Tom Cole (R-OK), Austin Scott (R-GA), Steve Womack (R-AR) and 35 more.

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Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr4157 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112