HR 2217 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to confirm the Consumer Product Safety Commission's jurisdiction over child safety devices for handguns, and for other purposes.

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 23, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMay 10, 2005
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to require the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to initiate a rulemaking establishing a consumer product (child) safety standard for handgun locks.

Cosponsors 5

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 10, 2005 to Nov 2, 2005, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NYMajor R. OwensOriginalMay 10, 2005
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyMay 17, 2005
D-OREarl BlumenauerMay 17, 2005
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyMay 26, 2005
D-NJDonald M. PayneNov 2, 2005

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 23, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
  2. May 10, 2005Introduced in House
  3. May 10, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. May 10, 2005Introduced in House

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