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Bill Text

A2286 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2286 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman MARGIE DONLON, M.D.

District 11 (Monmouth)

SYNOPSIS

���� Revises child labor laws concerning employment of 
minor in theatrical production.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning child labor laws and amending P.L.1962, 
c.91.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 3 of P.L.1962, 
c.91 (C.34:2-21.59) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3. a. Upon application of an 
employer, bearing the endorsed approval of a parent or guardian of the minor, 
or upon the application of a parent or guardian of the minor, a permit 
authorizing employment of the minor in a theatrical production may be issued 
if:

���� (a)�� The minor is in good 
health and will not likely be endangered by the working conditions of the 
prospective employment as certified by a currently issued statement of a 
licensed physician based upon a physical examination which, for minors under [8] eight 
years of age, includes a visual acuity screening if practicable;

���� (b)�� The place of employment 
is approved by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the 
period for which the permit is desired is not in excess of [3] three 
months;

���� (c)�� The minor is not 
attending public school and the application is for a period other than during 
the school summer vacation period, that [he] the minor 
is receiving [equivalent 
instruction approved by the Department of Education or by the state or county 
of his residence if he is a nonresident of New Jersey] three hours of schooling per 
missed day of school by a tutor provided by the employer, with the tutor having 
discretion to permit the minor to choose to engage in one additional hour of 
schooling per school day, and up to four additional hours on holidays, which can 
be counted toward the three-hour daily schooling requirement on other days in 
the same calendar week;

���� (d)�� The proposed employment [will] shall 
not exceed two shows or productions in a day or a total of eight shows or 
productions in any week where the professional employment is reasonably 
separable into discrete shows or productions; that the employment [will] shall 
not be for more than [6] six 
days in any week, [5 
hours in any day or a total of 24 hours, including rehearsal time, in any week], and 
that the minor [will] shall 
not be employed before 7:00 a.m. or after 11:30 p.m. and that [school and 
theatrical performance time] 
employment shall not exceed [8 
hours in any 1 day and that the combined time spent on a set or on call and 
performance time shall not exceed a total of eight hours in any one day], for a 
minor:

���� (i)��� between six years 
old and under nine years old, up to six hours in a day and time on set shall 
not exceed eight hours in a day;

���� (ii)�� between nine years 
old and under 16 years old, up to seven hours in a day and time on set shall 
not exceed nine hours in a day; and

���� (iii)� between 16 years old 
and under 18 years old to work on set for up to 8 hours a day and time on set 
shall not exceed 10 hours in a day;

���� (e)�� The employment does not 
involve a type of prohibited performance as [hereinafter] defined in 
section 1 of P.L.1962, c.91 (C.34:2-21.57); and

���� (f)�� The minor will be under 
the direct care and supervision of an adult who is a parent, guardian or a 
representative of the employer, named in the application, at all times during [his] the 
minor�s employment or while living away from home when required as an 
incident of such employment.

���� b.��� A permit or certificate, 
as the case may be, may be issued by the issuing officer or by the Commissioner 
of Labor and Workforce Development in cases involving a significant 
contribution to the development of the motion picture industry in the State as 
determined by the Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.� In 
such cases, the commissioner shall also have the authority to alter or amend 
the hours of the day but not the total hours in the day during which a minor 
may work as set forth in paragraph (d), subsection a. of this section, if such 
alteration or amendment will not foreseeably impair the educational 
instruction, supervision, health and welfare of the minor, and such an 
alteration or amendment is necessary for good reasons shown by the employer.� 
The commissioner shall set forth the terms of any alteration or amendment in 
the permit or certificate.

���� c.���� During a state of 
emergency or public health emergency, any aspect of the authorization requiring 
the personal appearance of the minor or the minor's parent or guardian may be 
satisfied through the use of audio-visual technology in a manner consistent with 
the provisions of subsection b. of section 8 of P.L.19