§2056a — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to review voluntary safety rules for durable baby and toddler products with input from consumers, makers, and child-safety experts. The CPSC must create federal safety rules that match or are stricter than those voluntary rules. The agency had to start rulemaking by 1 year after August 14, 2008 and must set standards for at least 2 product categories every 6 months until all are covered. When the CPSC adopts a voluntary standard, it must tell the group that wrote it and give them a copy. If that group later changes the voluntary standard, they must tell the CPSC; the change becomes the federal rule after 180 days unless the CPSC says within 90 days that the change does not improve safety. It is illegal to make, sell, lease, or put into commerce a crib that does not meet the CPSC crib standard. Those who make, sell, rent, or place cribs in public or child-care settings must follow the rule. After the first standard, new revisions apply at minimum to crib makers and importers; others must comply only if the CPSC decides it is needed and then gets at least 12 months to comply. Requires a final rule, by 1 year after August 14, 2008, that makes manufacturers include a postage-paid product registration form with each durable infant or toddler product. Manufacturers must keep registrant names, addresses, e-mails, and other contact details for at least 6 years and must mark each product with maker name, contact info, model, and manufacture date. The registration form must ask for name, address, phone, and e-mail; be attached so buyers will see it; offer online registration; explain the purpose and encourage signing; and say the information will only be used for recalls or safety alerts. The CPSC must study how well the forms work and report to Congress by 4 years after August 14, 2008, and must review recall notification technology (starting 2 years after the registration rule) and report by 3 years after August 14, 2008 and later as needed. If the agency finds a different technology is as good, manufacturers may use it instead of the paper form. Durable infant or toddler products are items meant for children under 5 and include things like cribs, toddler beds, high chairs, strollers, play yards, carriers, swings, and similar items.

Title 15, §2056a

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(a)This section may be cited as the “Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act”.

(b)(1)The Commission shall—

(A)in consultation with representatives of consumer groups, juvenile product manufacturers, and independent child product engineers and experts, examine and assess the effectiveness of any voluntary consumer product safety standards for durable infant or toddler products; and

(B)in accordance with section 553 of title 5, promulgate consumer product safety standards that—

(i)are substantially the same as such voluntary standards; or

(ii)are more stringent than such voluntary standards, if the Commission determines that more stringent standards would further reduce the risk of injury associated with such products.

(2)Not later than 1 year after August 14, 2008, the Commission shall commence the rulemaking required under paragraph (1) and shall promulgate standards for no fewer than 2 categories of durable infant or toddler products every 6 months thereafter, beginning with the product categories that the Commission determines to be of highest priority, until the Commission has promulgated standards for all such product categories. Thereafter, the Commission shall periodically review and revise the standards set forth under this subsection to ensure that such standards provide the highest level of safety for such products that is feasible.

(3)Any person adversely affected by such standards may file a petition for review under the procedures set forth in section 2060(g) of this title, as added by section 236 of this Act.

(4)(A)When the Commission promulgates a consumer product safety standard under this subsection that is based, in whole or in part, on a voluntary standard, the Commission shall notify the organization that issued the voluntary standard of the Commission’s action and shall provide a copy of the consumer product safety standard to the organization.

(B)If an organization revises a standard that has been adopted, in whole or in part, as a consumer product safety standard under this subsection, it shall notify the Commission. The revised voluntary standard shall be considered to be a consumer product safety standard issued by the Commission under section 2058 of this title, effective 180 days after the date on which the organization notifies the Commission (or such later date specified by the Commission in the Federal Register) unless, within 90 days after receiving that notice, the Commission notifies the organization that it has determined that the proposed revision does not improve the safety of the consumer product covered by the standard and that the Commission is retaining the existing consumer product safety standard.

(c)(1)It shall be a violation of section 2068(a)(1) of this title for any person to which this subsection applies to manufacture, sell, contract to sell or resell, lease, sublet, offer, provide for use, or otherwise place in the stream of commerce a crib that is not in compliance with a standard promulgated under subsection (b).

(2)This subsection applies to any person that—

(A)manufactures, distributes in commerce, or contracts to sell cribs;

(B)based on the person’s occupation, holds itself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to cribs, including child care facilities and family child care homes;

(C)is in the business of contracting to sell or resell, lease, sublet, or otherwise place cribs in the stream of commerce; or

(D)owns or operates a place of public accommodation affecting commerce (as defined in section 2203 of this title applied without regard to the phrase “not owned by the Federal Government”).

(3)With respect to any revision of the standard promulgated under subsection (b)(1)(B) subsequent to the initial promulgation of a standard under such subsection, paragraph (1) shall apply only to a person that manufactures or imports cribs, unless the Commission determines that application to any other person described in paragraph (2) is necessary to protect against an unreasonable risk to health or safety. If the Commission determines that application to a person described in paragraph (2) is necessary, it shall provide not less than 12 months for such person to come into compliance.

(4)In this subsection, the term “crib” includes—

(A)new and used cribs;

(B)full-sized or nonfull-sized cribs; and

(C)portable cribs and crib-pens.

(d)(1)Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 6 of title 5 or the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), not later than 1 year after August 14, 2008, the Commission shall, pursuant to its authority under section 2065(b) of this title, promulgate a final consumer product safety rule to require each manufacturer of a durable infant or toddler product—

(A)to provide consumers with a postage-paid consumer registration form with each such product;

(B)to maintain a record of the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and other contact information of consumers who register their ownership of such products with the manufacturer in order to improve the effectiveness of manufacturer campaigns to recall such products; and

(C)to permanently place the manufacturer name and contact information, model name and number, and the date of manufacture on each durable infant or toddler product.

(2)The registration form required to be provided to consumers under paragraph (1) shall—

(A)include spaces for a consumer to provide the consumer’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

(B)include space sufficiently large to permit easy, legible recording of all desired information;

(C)be attached to the surface of each durable infant or toddler product so that, as a practical matter, the consumer must notice and handle the form after purchasing the product;

(D)include the manufacturer’s name, model name and number for the product, and the date of manufacture;

(E)include a message explaining the purpose of the registration and designed to encourage consumers to complete the registration;

(F)include an option for consumers to register through the Internet; and

(G)include a statement that information provided by the consumer shall not be used for any purpose other than to facilitate a recall of or safety alert regarding that product.

(3)The rules required under this section shall require each manufacturer of a durable infant or toddler product to maintain a record of registrants for each product manufactured that includes all of the information provided by each consumer registered, and to use such information to notify such consumers in the event of a voluntary or involuntary recall of or safety alert regarding such product. Each manufacturer shall maintain such a record for a period of not less than 6 years after the date of manufacture of the product. Consumer information collected by a manufacturer under this Act may not be used by the manufacturer, nor disseminated by such manufacturer to any other party, for any purpose other than notification to such consumer in the event of a product recall or safety alert.

(4)The Commission shall conduct a study at such time as it considers appropriate on the effectiveness of the consumer registration forms required by this section in facilitating product recalls and whether such registration forms should be required for other children’s products. Not later than 4 years after August 14, 2008, the Commission shall report its findings to the appropriate Congressional committees.

(e)(1)The Commission shall—

(A)beginning 2 years after a rule is promulgated under subsection (d), regularly review recall notification technology and assess the effectiveness of such technology in facilitating recalls of durable infant or toddler products; and

(B)not later than 3 years after August 14, 2008, and periodically thereafter as the Commission considers appropriate, transmit a report on such assessments to the appropriate Congressional committees.

(2)If, based on the assessment required by paragraph (1), the Commission determines by rule that a recall notification technology is likely to be as effective or more effective in facilitating recalls of durable infant or toddler products as the registration forms required by subsection (d), the Commission—

(A)shall submit to the appropriate Congressional committees a report on such determination; and

(B)shall permit a manufacturer of durable infant or toddler products to use such technology in lieu of such registration forms to facilitate recalls of durable infant or toddler products.

(f)As used in this section, the term “durable infant or toddler product”—

(1)means a durable product intended for use, or that may be reasonably expected to be used, by children under the age of 5 years; and

(2)includes—

(A)full-size cribs and nonfull-size cribs;

(B)toddler beds;

(C)high chairs, booster chairs, and hook-on chairs;

(D)bath seats;

(E)gates and other enclosures for confining a child;

(F)play yards;

(G)stationary activity centers;

(H)infant carriers;

(I)strollers;

(J)walkers;

(K)swings; and

(L)bassinets and cradles.

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section 2060(g) of this title, as added by section 236 of this Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), is section 2060(g) of this title, as added by section 236 of Pub. L. 110–314. The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is Pub. L. 96–511, Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2812, which was classified principally to chapter 35 (§ 3501 et seq.) of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents, prior to the general amendment of that chapter by Pub. L. 104–13, § 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 163. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 1980 Amendment note set out under section 101 of Title 44 and Tables. This Act, referred to in subsec. (d)(3), is Pub. L. 110–314, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3016, known as the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 2008 Amendment note set out under section 2051 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, and not as part of the Consumer Product Safety Act which comprises this chapter.

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2011—Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 112–28, § 3(a), added par. (4). Subsec. (c)(3), (4). Pub. L. 112–28, § 3(b), added par. (3) and redesignated former par. (3) as (4).

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Definitions For definitions of “Commission” and “appropriate Congressional committees” used in this section, see section 2(a) of Pub. L. 110–314, set out as a note under section 2051 of this title.

§2056a Standards and Consumer Registration of Durable Nursery Products

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