House Committee Delays Markup of Bill to Amend CPSIA
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has postponed its markup of H.R. 1939, a bill to revise the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) and allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission greater authority and flexibility to regulate based…
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on risk. The Committee has not yet set a date, but expects to consider the bill sometime during the week of May 31, 2011. H.R. 1939 is called the Enhancing CPSC Authority and Discretion Act of 2011. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 05/13/11 news, 11051308, for BP summary of the bill as reported by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on May 12, 2011.)