1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Future in Logging Careers Act . 2. Child labor law exemptions for timber harvesting entities and mechanized timber harvesting entities The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. ) is amended— (1) in section 3 ( 29 U.S.C. 203 ), by adding at the end the following: (z) (1) Timber harvesting employer means an employer engaged in— (A) the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated chainsaws and cable skidders; (B) the felling of timber in mechanized operations; (C) the bucking or converting of timber into logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar products; (D) the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and unloading of such products in connection with logging; (E) the constructing, repairing and maintaining of roads or camps used in connection with logging; the constructing, repairing, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging; and (F) other work performed in connection with logging. (2) Mechanized timber harvesting employer — (A) means an employer engaged in the felling, skidding, yarding, loading and processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated chain­saws and cable skidders; and (B) includes an employer engaged in the use of whole tree processors, cut-to-length processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled and track feller-bunchers, pull thru delimbers, wheeled and track forwarders, chippers, grinders, mechanical de­bark­ers, wheeled and track grapple skidders, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log loaders.