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CPSC Reform Act

Introduced: February 25, 2008 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 17 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Mar 6, 2008

See also H.R.4040.

Mar 6, 2008

Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 582.

Mar 6, 2008

Senate passed companion measure H.R.4040 in lieu of this measure by Yea-Nay Vote. 79 - 13. Record Vote Number: 41.

Mar 6, 2008

Senate incorporated this measure in H.R.4040 as an amendment.

Mar 6, 2008

Cloture motion on the bill withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate.

Mar 6, 2008

Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1669-1697)

Mar 5, 2008

Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S1593; text: CR S1593)

Mar 5, 2008

Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1556-1593)

Mar 4, 2008

Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S1495-1502, S1502-1518, S1518-1519)

Mar 3, 2008

Cloture on the motion to proceed invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 86 - 1. Record Vote Number: 36. (consideration: CR S1459; text: CR S1459)

Mar 3, 2008

Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S1451-1457, S1459)

Feb 29, 2008

Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S1434)

Feb 29, 2008

Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S1434; text: CR S1434)

Feb 29, 2008

Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S1434)

Feb 26, 2008

Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 582.

Feb 25, 2008

Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1127-1138)

Feb 25, 2008

Introduced in Senate

Amendments to this bill 59

Amendments propose changes to this bill. Members vote on amendments separately before the final bill vote. An agreed amendment becomes part of the bill; a failed amendment does not.

27 agreed to 32 pending / other

Amendment	Sponsor	Purpose	Status	Latest action
SAMDT 4,143	—	To ensure that the Commission appropriately addresses impacts on small businesses of the revised civil penalt…	Agreed to	Mar 7, 2008
SAMDT 4,141	Durbin, Richard J.	To modify the automatic residential garage door operators standards requirements.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,138	—	To revise the section requiring a study of preventable injuries and deaths of minority children related to ce…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,137	—	To modify the scope of products to which section 15(b) applies.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,136	—	Of a perfecting nature.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,132	—	To authorize the temporary refusal of admission into the customs territory of the United States of consumer p…	Withdrawn	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,130	—	To require the Consumer Product Safety commission to promulgate consumer product safety rules with respect to…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,128	Klobuchar, Amy	To revise the inaccessible component rule for children's products.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,124	—	To strike section 31, relating to garage door opener standards.	Withdrawn	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,123	Collins, Susan M.	To provide that Federal employees shall be limited to the remedies available under chapters 12 and 23 of titl…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,122	—	To strike the provision allowing the Commission to certify a proprietary laboratory for third party testing.	Withdrawn	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,120	—	To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission to identify and validate alternative technologies for the…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,118	—	To require a court to review the reasonableness of fees paid to private counsel retained in an enforcement ac…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,116	—	To provide that attorney-client privileged information shall retain the same protections that would apply in …	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,114	—	To require the Comptroller General of the United States conduct a study and report on the effectiveness of au…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,113	—	To clarify and expand requirements with respect to information in recall notices.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,112	—	To clarify the requirement to include cautionary statements on advertisements.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,109	—	To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to study the use of formaldehyde in the manufacturing of te…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,108	Cornyn, John	To provide appropriate procedures for individual actions by whistleblowers, to provide for the appropriate as…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,104	—	To prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of certain children's products and child care …	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,103	—	To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to develop training standards for product safety inspectors.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,101	—	To revise the section on Inspector General reports.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,098	—	To ban the importation of toys made by companies that have a persistent pattern of violating consumer product…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,097	—	To allow the prevailing party in certain civil actions related to consumer product safety rules to recover at…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,092	—	To encourage and ensure the use of safe equestrian helmets, and for other purposes.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,090	—	Of a technical nature.	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,088	Klobuchar, Amy	To authorize the Commission by rule to exempt lead crystal from the ban on lead in children's products if the…	Agreed to	Mar 6, 2008
SAMDT 4,105	Klobuchar, Amy	To authorize appropriations for necessary or appropriate travel, subsistence, and related expenses, and for o…	Agreed to	Mar 5, 2008
SAMDT 4,096	—	To strike section 21, relating to whisteblower protections.	Withdrawn	Mar 5, 2008
SAMDT 4,094	Cornyn, John	To prohibit State attorneys general from entering into contingency fee agreements for legal or expert witness…	Agreed to	Mar 5, 2008
SAMDT 4,095	—	In the nature of a substitute.	Agreed to	Mar 4, 2008
SAMDT 4,145	—	—	Pending	—
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SAMDT 4,129	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,127	—	—	Pending	—
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SAMDT 4,121	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,119	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,117	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,115	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,111	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,110	—	—	Pending	—
SAMDT 4,107	—	—	Pending	—

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CPSC Reform Act - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act and for other purposes.

Creates or modifies provisions relating to personnel and Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), public disclosure of information, and rulemaking procedures.

Requires third party certification of, and provides for tracking and record keeping regarding, children's products.

Modifies provisions relating reporting of substantial product hazards and corrective action plans.

Requires manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and importers to identify each other.

Modifies provisions relating to prohibited acts, penalties, preemption, and sharing of information with federal, state, local, and foreign government agencies.

Requires certain manufacturers or distributors to post an escrow or proof of insurance to cover recalls.

Allows enforcement by state attorneys general and provides public and private sector whistleblower protections.

Bans children's products containing lead and lowers the allowable lead content in paint.

Requires a study of preventable injuries and deaths of minority children related to consumer products.

Requires a cost-benefit analysis under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970.

Imposes or modifies requirements regarding portable gasoline containers, toy safety, all-terrain vehicles, garage door openers, carbon monoxide, cigarette lighters, and consumer product registration forms.

Requires development of a risk assessment methodology regarding imports.

Requires publication of a list of product defects that constitute a substantial product hazard.

Conditions importation of a consumer product on the manufacturer's compliance with certain inspection and record keeping requirements.

Requires a database on violations of consumer product safety rules to be used to determine whether a container being imported contains consumer products that are in violation of a consumer product safety standard and whether action should be taken under imported products provisions.

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