Child Labor Amendment - Actions in The State Legislatures

Actions in The State Legislatures

The Child Labor Amendment has been ratified by the legislatures of the following 28 states:

  1. Arkansas in 1924
  2. Arizona in 1925
  3. California in 1925
  4. Wisconsin in 1925
  5. Montana in 1927
  6. Colorado in 1931
  7. Illinois in 1933
  8. Iowa in 1933
  9. Maine in 1933
  10. Michigan in 1933
  11. Minnesota in 1933
  12. New Hampshire in 1933
  13. New Jersey in 1933
  14. North Dakota in 1933
  15. Ohio in 1933
  16. Oklahoma in 1933
  17. Oregon in 1933
  18. Pennsylvania in 1933
  19. Washington in 1933
  20. West Virginia in 1933
  21. Idaho in 1935
  22. Indiana in 1935
  23. Utah in 1935
  24. Wyoming in 1935
  25. Kentucky in 1936
  26. Kansas in 1937
  27. Nevada in 1937
  28. New Mexico in 1937

In 1929, the Nebraska Senate voted to ratify the Child Labor Amendment, but the Legislature's lower house did not (the Nebraska Legislature in those days was still bicameral); the Mississippi Senate voted to ratify the measure in 1934, but the state's House of Representatives did not; and in 1937, the New York Senate voted to ratify it, but the state's Assembly did not.

Although the act, on the part of state legislatures, of "rejected" a proposed constitutional amendment has no legal recognition, such action does have political ramifications. The Child Labor Amendment was rejected—and not subsequently ratified—by lawmakers in North Carolina in 1924; in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont all in 1925; in Virginia in 1926; and in Maryland in 1927. In the specific case of Louisiana, its legislators rejected the Child Labor Amendment three times, first in 1924, again a decade later in 1934, and lastly in 1936.

Today, with 50 states in the Union, the ratifications of 10 additional states would be required to incorporate the proposed Child Labor Amendment into the Constitution.

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