SAFE Consumer Product Act
Latest action · Sep 27, 2007 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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.
- IntroducedSep 27, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Safety Assurance For Every Consumer Product Act or the SAFE Consumer Product Act - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to require (in current law, authorize) the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to prescribe consumer product testing programs. Requires nongovernmental, independent third party testing of children's products.
Increases the actions the CPSC may take in ordering recalls of products presenting substantial hazards. Makes recalled product retail sale unlawful.
Requires manufacturers to mark products or packaging to enable purchasers to determine the product's source, date, and production cohort.
Removes the cap on Consumer Product Safety Act civil penalties. Removes a requirement that criminal penalties may only be imposed after noncompliance notice.
Reduces the period after CPSC notification to manufacturers and private labelers before public disclosure of information obtained under the Act.
Requires any person who must give public notice of a substantial product hazard to post a notice on the Internet.
Declares any children's product containing more than a specified amount of lead to be a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, allowing a temporary exception for electronic devices.
Requires certain actions to facilitate recalls of children's products and authorizes the CPSC to extend the requirements to consumer products other than children's products.
Requires children's product's warning labels to be included in Internet advertisements.
Removes provisions requiring a minimum number of CPSC members to transact business.
Modifies rulemaking notice requirements.
Declares the sense of Congress that the full complement of five CPSC members is necessary to conduct CPSC business and the President should fill vacancies expeditiously.
Prohibits any consumer product safety standard or other CPSC action after enactment of this Act from containing a preemption provision which affects any action under state statutory or common law unless the provision is expressly authorized by statute.
Cosponsors 167
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 27, 2007 to Feb 6, 2008; 8 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OH | Betty Sutton | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-NY | John J. Hall | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Original | Sep 27, 2007 |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Oct 2, 2007 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Oct 2, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Oct 4, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Ciro D. Rodriguez | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-KS | Dennis Moore | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Gary L. Ackerman | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Marion Berry | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Phil Hare | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Rahm Emanuel | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Ron Kind | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Tom Lantos | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-MA | John F. Tierney | Oct 15, 2007 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Oct 15, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Oct 16, 2007 | |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Oct 16, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-NH | Carol Shea-Porter | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Mike Ross | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-KS | Nancy E. Boyda | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Norman D. Dicks | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Timothy H. Bishop | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Timothy J. Walz | Oct 17, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Bart Stupak | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-IA | Bruce L. Braley | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-CT | Christopher Murphy | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Jerry F. Costello | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Steve Kagen | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Steven R. Rothman | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Xavier Becerra | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Al Green | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-AL | Artur Davis | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-OR | David Wu | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | George Miller | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-SC | James E. Clyburn | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-MD | John P. Sarbanes | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CO | Mark Udall | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Joe Sestak | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Brian Baird | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Chet Edwards | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Jay Inslee | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Jim Cooper | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-IA | Leonard L. Boswell | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Michael A. Arcuri | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Oct 25, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Oct 25, 2007 | |
| D-AZ | Gabrielle Giffords | Oct 29, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Oct 29, 2007 | |
| D-KY | Ben Chandler | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Jason Altmire | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Paul E. Kanjorski | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Sander M. Levin | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-IN | Brad Ellsworth | Nov 5, 2007 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Nov 5, 2007 | |
| D-MA | John W. Olver | Nov 5, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Russ Carnahan | Nov 5, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Nov 5, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Daniel Lipinski | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Silvestre Reyes | Nov 6, 2007 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Nov 9, 2007 | |
| D-KY | John A. Yarmuth | Nov 9, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Nov 14, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Dec 4, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Dec 4, 2007 | |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Dec 4, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Dec 4, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Dec 4, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Dec 4, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Dec 5, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Dec 5, 2007 | |
| D-CO | John T. Salazar | Dec 5, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Dec 10, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Laura Richardson | Dec 10, 2007 | |
| D-AL | Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. | Dec 12, 2007 | |
| D-NC | Melvin L. Watt | Jan 17, 2008 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Feb 6, 2008 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Sep 27, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 27, 2007Introduced in House
- Sep 27, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-75 | COMPREHENSIVE CHILDREN'S PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION REFORM LEGISLATION121 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Nov 6, 2007 |
| S. Hrg. 110-1184 | S. 2045, THE CPSC REFORM ACT OF 2007125 pages | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Oct 4, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To reauthorize and improve the Consumer Product Safety Act.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- SAFE Consumer Product Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Advertising
- Child safety
- Commerce
- Consumer education
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Consumer protection
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Defective products
- Electronics
- Environmental Protection
- Families
- Federal preemption
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Internet
- Labeling
- Law
- Lead
- Packaging
- Product safety
- Quality control
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Warning labels
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 27, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
