Protect Local Farms Act
This bill preempts state laws that provide for a maximum workweek of less than 60 hours for agricultural employees. Under federal law, agricultural employees are generally exempt from maximum hours (i.e., overtime) requirements.
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provided for the 
 preemption of certain State overtime laws for agricultural employees.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Local Farms Act''.

SEC. 2. PREEMPTION OF CERTAIN STATE OVERTIME LAWS FOR AGRICULTURAL 
              EMPLOYEES.

    Section 18 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 218) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``No provision of this 
        Act or of any order thereunder'' and inserting ``Except as 
        provided in subsection (c), no provision of this Act or of any 
        order thereunder''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) The provisions of this Act shall preempt any State law that 
provides for a maximum workweek for employees employed in agriculture 
of less than 60 hours.''.
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Protect Local Farms Act
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provided for the preemption of certain State overtime laws for agricultural employees.
Protect Local Farms Act
Rep. Jacobs, Chris