1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety of 2024 or the CARE Act of 2024 . 2. Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Sec. 3. Findings. TITLE I—Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 Sec. 101. Application of child labor laws to independent contractors. Sec. 102. Revised age requirement for child agricultural employment and exemptions for hazardous and non-hazardous work. Sec. 103. Repeal of waiver provision for hand harvest laborers. Sec. 104. Pesticide-related worker protection standard. TITLE II—Penalties and enforcement Sec. 201. Increased civil penalties for child labor violations. Sec. 202. Special criminal penalties for certain aggravated child labor violations. TITLE III—Reports and memorandum of understanding Sec. 301. Report to Congress on child labor and work-related injuries to children and related matters. Sec. 302. Employer reporting requirements. Sec. 303. Memorandum of understanding. TITLE IV—Effective dates Sec. 401. Effective date for application of child labor laws to independent contractors. Sec. 402. Application of other fair labor standards amendments. Sec. 403. Application of Occupational Safety and Health Act amendments. 3. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Across the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of children who are working in the agricultural industry and performing the grueling work that is required to plant, pick, process, and pack the food that people eat every day. (2) Congress included exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. ) child labor provisions that create separate minimum age thresholds and hazardous occupations rules for children employed in agriculture. Such Act does not limit the number of hours per day or week that children can work in agriculture, nor does it place limits on when that work occurs outside of school hours (i.e., children may work in agriculture for