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S. 2663 110th Congress Senate

CPSC Reform Act

Official title: A bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consume… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of consumer product recall programs, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 26, 2008 See on congress.gov
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 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Cloture motion on the bill withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate.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Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.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
 Votes taken on this bill 1
DateChamberWhat was voted onResultYes–No
Mar 3, 2008 Senate · vote #36 On the Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S.… Agreed To 86–1 See who voted →
 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 28 with no recorded outcome 4 withdrawn or other

AmendmentSponsorPurposeStatusLatest 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 – – No recorded outcome –
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SAMDT 4,121 – – No recorded outcome –
SAMDT 4,119 – – No recorded outcome –
SAMDT 4,117 – – No recorded outcome –
SAMDT 4,115 – – No recorded outcome –
SAMDT 4,111 – – No recorded outcome –
SAMDT 4,110 – – No recorded outcome –
SAMDT 4,107 – – No recorded outcome –

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 Latest action March 6, 2008

See also H.R.4040.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

 Related & companion bills 2
 Bill text 1 version

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