STURDY Act
Latest action · Sep 18, 2019 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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.
- IntroducedApr 10, 2019
- Passed HouseSep 17, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act or the STURDY Act
This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to revise the safety standards for freestanding clothing storage units such as a dressers, bureaus, or chests of drawers. Such standards must include specified testing related to tip overs and new warning requirements for all such products entering the U.S. market.
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 10, 2019 to Sep 6, 2019; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Apr 10, 2019 |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Original | Apr 10, 2019 |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Original | Apr 10, 2019 |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Tony Cárdenas | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | Jun 13, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Jun 13, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Kathleen M. Rice | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Stephanie N. Murphy | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Angie Craig | Jun 27, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Jun 27, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Jun 27, 2019 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jul 12, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-DE | Lisa Blunt Rochester | Jul 22, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Lauren Underwood | Aug 27, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Sep 6, 2019 |
Committees 2
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 Apr 10, 2019Markup Jul 17, 2019Reported Sep 16, 2019 |
| Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee | Referred Apr 11, 2019Hearings Jun 13, 2019Markup Jul 10, 2019Reported Jul 10, 2019 | |
| Senate | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Referred Sep 18, 2019 |
Actions 16
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2019Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- Sep 17, 2019Ms. Schakowsky moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 17, 2019Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7720-7723)
- Sep 17, 2019DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2211.
- Sep 17, 2019Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7720)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H7720–H7723Text printed H7720 | Billy Long R-MO, Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL, Jerry McNerney D-CA | Sep 17, 2019 |
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Sep 24, 2019H.R. 2211, STURDY ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 17, 2019
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 62, April 10, 2019, page H3257.
Printed hearings 1
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. 116-46 | KEEPING KIDS AND CONSUMERS SAFE FROM DANGEROUS PRODUCTS143 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Jun 13, 2019 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1902 | STURDY Act | Identical bill | Jun 19, 2019 |
Titles 9
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety rule for free-standing clothing storage units to protect children from tip-over related death or injury, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act
- STURDY Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- STURDY Act
- Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- STURDY Act
- Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act
- STURDY Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2019Referred in Senate
- Sep 17, 2019Engrossed in House
- Sep 16, 2019Reported in House
- Apr 10, 2019Introduced 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.
