Florida Senate - 2025 SB 918 By Senator Collins 14-01191-25 2025918__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the employment of minors; amending 3 s. 450.081, F.S.; deleting certain restrictions on 4 minors 16 and 17 years of age being employed, 5 permitted, or suffered to work; revising the 6 exceptions to such restrictions for certain minors; 7 deleting a provision authorizing the Department of 8 Business and Professional Regulation to grant a waiver 9 of such restrictions; providing an effective date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1.Subsections (2), (4), (5), and (6) of section 14 450.081, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 15 450.081Hours of work in certain occupations. 16 (2)(a)Minors 16 and 17 years of age may not be employed, 17 permitted, or suffered to work: 18 1.Before 6:30 a.m. or after 11 p.m. when school is 19 scheduled the following day. 20 2.For more than 8 hours in any one day when school is 21 scheduled the following day, except when the day of work is on a 22 holiday or Sunday. 23 3.For more than 30 hours in any one week when school is in 24 session. However, a minors parent or custodian, or the school 25 superintendent or his or her designee, may waive the limitation 26 imposed in this subparagraph on a form prescribed by the 27 department and provided to the minors employer. 28 (b)On any school day, minors 16 and 17 years of age who 29 are not enrolled in a career education program may not be 30 gainfully employed during school hours. 31 (3)(4)Minors 15 years of age or younger may not be 32 employed, permitted, or suffered to work for more than 4 hours 33 continuously without an interval of at least 30 minutes for a 34 meal period; and for the purposes of this law, a period of less 35 than 30 minutes is not deemed to interrupt a continuous period 36 of work. Minors 16 and 17 years of age who are employed, 37 permitted, or suffered to work for 8 hours or more in any one 38 day as authorized by this section may not be employed, 39 permitted, or suffered to work for more than 4 hours 40 continuously without an interval of at least 30 minutes for a 41 meal period. 42 (4)(5)Subsections (1), (2), and (3) (1)-(4) do not apply 43 to: 44 (a)Minors 14 16 and 15 17 years of age who have graduated 45 from high school or received a high school equivalency diploma. 46 (b)Minors 14 and 15 years of age who are within the 47 compulsory school attendance age limit and who hold a valid 48 certificate of exemption issued by the school superintendent or 49 his or her designee pursuant to s. 1003.21(3). 50 (c)Minors enrolled in a public an educational institution 51 who qualify on a hardship basis, such as economic necessity or 52 family emergency. The school superintendent or his or her 53 designee shall make such determination and issue a waiver of 54 hours to the minor and the employer. The form and contents 55 thereof must shall be prescribed by the department. 56 (d)Minors 14 16 and 15 17 years of age who are in a home 57 education program or are enrolled in an approved virtual 58 instruction program in which the minor is separated from the 59 teacher by time only. 60 (e)Minors in domestic service in private homes, minors 61 employed by their parents, or pages in the Florida Legislature. 62 (6)The department may grant a waiver of the restrictions 63 imposed by this section pursuant to s. 450.095. 64 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.