House Scheduled to Consider CPSC Appropriations Bill Week of July 11
During the week of July 11, 2011, the House is scheduled to consider H.R. 2434, the fiscal year 2012 Financial Services appropriations bill which would, among other things, prohibit funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to carry out activities related to its public database of consumer product safety incidents and regulate lead in bicycles and youth off-highway and all-terrain vehicles. (The House Appropriations Committee amended and approved the fiscal year 2012 Financial Services appropriations bill on July 23, 2011. See ITT's Online Archives or 06/24/11 news, 11062413, for BP summary.)
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Highlights of the trade-related provisions of H.R. 2434 include:
- providing FY 2012 funding for the CPSC, Small Business Administration, Federal Trade Commission, Treasury Department, etc.;
- prohibiting funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to regulate lead in bicycles and youth off-highway and all-terrain vehicles;
- prohibiting funding from being used to carry out activities related to the CPSC’s public database of consumer product safety incidents which was mandated by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA);
- clarifying the requirement for payment of "cash in advance" for agricultural goods sold to Cuba.
See future issue for additional details on the Committee-reported bill and report.
Committee press release available here
H.R. 2434 available here
Weekly House schedule from Republican Cloakroom available here