President Signs Bill to Reform CPSIA Lead Provision, Testing, Database, Etc.
On August 12, 2011, the President signed into law H.R. 2715, a bill to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with greater authority and discretion and to reform aspects of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
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(On August 1, 2011, the House and Senate both passed H.R. 2715.)
Bill Makes Lead Limit Prospective, Limits Phthalates Ban, Modifies Public Database, Etc.
This new law will make several targeted reforms to the CPSIA children’s product requirements, including:
- making the 100 parts per million lead content limit prospective;
- introducing a new exemption process for lead content;
- exempting ATVs from the lead content limits and providing certain alternative limits for bicycles;
- providing an alternative or exempting small batch manufacturers from third-party testing requirements;
- seeking comments and issuing regulations to reduce CPSIA testing burdens;
- generally limiting the phthalates bans to plasticized, accessible components;
- allowing CPSC to exclude certain products from the tracking label requirements; and
- modifying certain aspects of the public database of consumer product safety incidents.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 08/02/11 news, 11080230, for detailed BP summary of H.R. 2715 as passed by Congress.
See ITT’s Online Archives or 04/06/11 news, 11040621, for BP summary of a draft House bill to revise the CPSIA, which certain Commissioners stated went too far.
See ITT’s Online Archives or 03/26/10 news, 10032605, for BP summary of a House bill in the previous Congress to revise the CPSC, which other Commissioners stated was inadequate.
White House press release on signing of H.R. 2715 available here
CPSC Chairman's statement on signing of H.R. 2715 avaialble here
Representative Bono Mack press release on signing of H.R. 2715 available here
H.R. 2715 available here