§2056f Consumer product safety standard to protect against tip-over of clothing storage units

Summary

Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to create a safety standard for free-standing clothing storage units (furniture made to store clothes, like bedroom dressers) to protect children up to 72 months old from tip-over injuries and deaths. Except as allowed later in the law, the CPSC must finish this work within 1 year after December 29, 2022, after talking with consumer groups, makers, and child-safety experts. The final standard must take effect 180 days after it is issued, or later if the CPSC chooses. The standard must include tests that simulate children weighing up to 60 pounds and must use repeatable, measurable tests that copy real-world use, including placement on carpet, drawers with items, multiple open drawers, and dynamic force. All clothing storage units, including those 27 inches and taller, must be tested. Warning labels should follow ASTM F2057–19 or its successor, but the CPSC can make stronger warnings if needed. The tests must allow built-in safety features (other than tip restraints) to work if they cannot be turned off in normal use. If a voluntary standard already meets these rules and was published within 60 days after December 29, 2022, the CPSC must adopt it within 90 days and make it effective 120 days after adoption. If that voluntary standard is later revised, the group that changed it must tell the CPSC, and the CPSC has set timeframes (90 days, 120 days, 180 days) to decide and update the rule. Five years after December 29, 2022, the CPSC may also start rule changes when needed, and there is a process and deadlines for petitions to add or change tests.