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2007 Senate Bill 594 (Revise youth employment limits )

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  • Introduced by Sen. Tony Stamas on June 19, 2007, to revise the law that restricts the maximum number of hours that minors age 16 and 17 who are in school can work. The bill sets the limit at 20 hours of work a week, rather than the current law’s maximum of 48 hours combined school and work a week. During the summer the current maximum is 48 hours a week, and this would not be changed. The standard school day is 6.1 hours (30.5 hours per week). .
    • Referred to the Senate Economic Development and Regulatory Reform Committee on June 19, 2007.

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Introduced by Sen. Tony Stamas on June 19, 2007. New Comment

1) Who will pay your taxes? [by changeagent on June 22, 2007]
It is already difficult for the few teenagers who have enough ambition to find work because of all the regulations involved. They can't even mow lawns because it involves dangerous heavy equipment. We are teaching them to be wards of the state rather than responsible self supporting confident adults. Who will pay your taxes when all productivity ends? Work is a good thing! There are no sweat shops. Let us live our lives!
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2) What Do You Guys Do All Day? [by Anonymous Citizen on June 22, 2007]
just sit around trying to pass moronic stuff just to show that you are "doing something"?
Please stop it. Do nothing. Take a walk in the sun. (don't forget the government mandated sunscreen). Play solitaire. Go for coffee more often. Take up fishing (if you can afford it after all the new bees/taxes). We will all be better off. After 200 and some odd years we don't need thousands of new laws a year.
Fred Thompson said when asked about the few bills he started that the sign of a good representative is not how many bills he writes but how many stupid bills he is able to stop.
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3) OOPs [by plumberboy on June 22, 2007]
I didn't mean to post twice sorry.
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4) This is a bad idea [by plumberboy on June 22, 2007]
The current method has a reasonable ratio and works just fine .The current method allows kids who co-op to spend more hours at work because what happens is there scholl day is shortened by two hours which means they get two more hours of making money to pay for their gas ,insurance,vechicle maintence,or what ever other expenses teens have.I mean your method would really put the screws to co-op kids somethings are best left alone I think this is probably one I hope this fizzles and bombs.
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5) This is a bad idea [by plumberboy on June 22, 2007]
The current method has a reasonable ratio and works just fine .The current method allows kids who co-op to spend more hours at work because what happens is there scholl day is shortened by two hours which means they get two more hours of making money to pay for their gas ,insurance,vechicle maintence,or what ever other expenses teens have.I mean your method would really put the screws to co-op kids somethings are best left alone I think this is probably one I hope this fizzles and bombs.
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