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Legislative action that proposed this amendment: SJR11 1979 Regular Session
Disposition: This amendment took effect following voter ratification. You may read the resulting 1981 Utah Constitution here.
Amends article 16 section 3
16:3
The Legislature shall prohibit:
(1) The employment of children under the age of fourteen years, in underground mines.
(2) The involuntary contracting of convict labor.
(3) the political and commercial control of employees.
