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HR 3049 115th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Accidents Building construction Child safety and welfare Congressional oversight Government studies and investigations Military personnel and dependents Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Evan's Law

Introduced: June 23, 2017 Introduced by: Turner, Michael R. Republican · Ohio See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
Jun 23, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Jun 23, 2017
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5114)
Jun 23, 2017
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Evan's Law

This bill requires the military department concerned to ensure that any window of a military family housing unit the bottom sill of which is within 36 inches of the floor is equipped with fall prevention devices that protect against unintentional falls by young children and that comply with applicable International Building Code (IBC) standards.

Each department must brief the House Committee on Armed Services on the implementation of such requirement and include in the briefing: (1) a plan to retrofit existing military family housing units to meet such requirement; (2) the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of expanding such requirement to apply to windows with higher sills, modifying such requirement to require windows to be equipped with additional fall prevention devices that meet specified criteria, or extending such requirement to private housing leased or otherwise used by military families; and (3) the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of other potential methods to protect against unintentional window falls by young children in military family housing units.

What's happening now July 17, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2