Infant Crib Safety Act

To provide for infant crib safety, and for other purposes.

4/3/2008--Introduced.
Infant Crib Safety Act - Amends the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to make it unlawful for any commercial user to manufacture, sell, or otherwise place in the stream of commerce any full-size or nonfull-size crib which was made before 1999, does not conform to the standards of this Act, or has any missing, loose, or broken components. Makes it unlawful for any hotel, motel, or similar lodging facility to offer or provide such a crib. Considers to be a banned hazardous product under the Consumer Product Safety Act any crib which does not conform to specified regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations and standards of the American Society for Testing Materials, unless labeled as not intended to be used for, and dangerous to, an infant. Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to begin a rulemaking to include the requirements of the American Society for Testing Materials standards and to address any hazards due to crib and play yard durability. Requires the CPSC to promulgate a consumer product safety rule to require that cribs manufactured and introduced into interstate commerce contain a label warning consumers against the use of soft bedding. Includes in the definition of commercial user any person who manufactures or sells cribs or, by his or her occupation holds himself or herself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to cribs, including child care facilities and family child care homes. Excludes from that definition an individual who sells a used crib at a one-time private sale.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Ellen Tauscher [D, CA-10]
• and 10 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Dale Kildee [D, MI-5]
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. Grace Napolitano [D, CA-38]
  • Rep. Michael Rogers [R, MI-8]
  • Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 1 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.5692

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April 03, 2008

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• Apr 04, 2008: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H505-506)
• Apr 04, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
• Apr 03, 2008: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Introduced on Apr 03, 2008.

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