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Union Calendar No. 227 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1699 

[Report No. 110–366] 

To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require certain manufacturers to provide consumer product registration forms to facilitate 

recalls of durable infant and toddler products. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 26, 2007 

Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself and Mr. UPTON) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

OCTOBER 9, 2007 

Additional sponsors: Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MOORE

of Kansas, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, and 

Mr. GORDON of Tennessee 

OCTOBER 9, 2007 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 26, 2007] 

A BILL 

To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require certain manufacturers to provide consumer product 

registration forms to facilitate recalls of durable infant 

and toddler products. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Danny Keysar Child 

5 Product Safety Notification Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) Unintentional injuries are the leading cause 

9 of death among children, and for every such injury 

10 that is fatal, approximately 18 children are hospital11 ized and 1,250 are treated by emergency departments 

12 for such injuries that are nonfatal. 

13 (2) According to the Consumer Product Safety 

14 Commission, an average of 50 children under the age 

15 of 5 die each year in incidents associated with nurs16 ery products, and about 16 of these deaths each year 

17 are associated with cribs. 

18 (3) In 2003, an estimated 60,700 children under 

19 the age of 5 were treated in United States hospital 

20 emergency rooms for injuries associated with nursery 

21 products, and there were 10,700 injuries to children 

22 under the age of 5 years associated with strollers 

23 alone. 

24 (4) Of the 397 recalls issued by the Consumer 

25 Product Safety Commission in fiscal year 2005, 109 


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1 (or 27 percent) were children’s products. Children’s 

2 products were recalled, on average, over 2 times per 

3 week, and accounted for 19,635,627 individual units. 

4 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

5 In this Act: 

6 (1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 

7 means the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

8 (2) DURABLE INFANT OR TODDLER PRODUCT.— 

9 The term ‘‘durable infant or toddler product’’— 

10 (A) means a durable product intended for 

11 use, or that may be reasonably expected to be 

12 used, by children under the age of 5 years; and 

13 (B) shall include— 

14 (i) full-size cribs and nonfull-size cribs; 

15 (ii) toddler beds; 

16 (iii) high chairs, booster chairs, and 

17 hook-on chairs; 

18 (iv) bath seats; 

19 (v) gates and other enclosures for con20 fining a child; 

21 (vi) play yards; 

22 (vii) stationary activity centers; 

23 (viii) infant carriers; 

24 (ix) strollers; 

25 (x) walkers; 


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1 (xi) swings; and 

2 (xii) bassinets and cradles. 

3 SEC. 4. CONSUMER PRODUCT REGISTRATION FORMS. 

4 (a) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 1 year after the 

5 date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall, pursu6 ant to its authority under section 16(b) of the Consumer 

7 Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2065(b)), promulgate a final 

8 consumer product safety rule to require manufacturers of 

9 durable infant or toddler products— 

10 (1) to provide consumers with a postage-paid 

11 consumer registration form with each such product; 

12 (2) to maintain a record of the names, addresses, 

13 email addresses, and other contact information of con14 sumers who register their ownership of such products 

15 with the manufacturer in order to improve the effec16 tiveness of manufacturer campaigns to recall such 

17 products; and 

18 (3) to permanently place the manufacturer name 

19 and contact information, model name and number, 

20 and the date of manufacture on each durable infant 

21 or toddler product. 

22 (b) REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION FORM.—The 

23 registration form required to be provided to consumers 

24 under subsection (a) shall— 


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1 (1) include spaces for a consumer to provide 

2 their name, address, telephone number, and email ad3 dress; 

4 (2) include space sufficiently large to permit 

5 easy, legible recording of all desired information; 

6 (3) be attached to the surface of each durable in7 fant or toddler product so that, as a practical matter, 

8 the consumer must notice and handle the form after 

9 purchasing the product; 

10 (4) include the manufacturer’s name, model 

11 name and number for the product, and the date of 

12 manufacture; 

13 (5) include a message explaining the purpose of 

14 the registration and designed to encourage consumers 

15 to complete the registration; 

16 (6) include an option for consumers to register 

17 through the Internet; and 

18 (7) include a statement that information pro19 vided by the consumer shall not be used for any pur20 pose other than to facilitate a recall of or safety alert 

21 regarding that product. 

22 In issuing regulations under this section, the Commission 

23 may prescribe the exact text and format of the required reg24 istration form. 


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1 (c) RECORD KEEPING AND NOTIFICATION REQUIRE2 MENTS.—The standard required under this section shall re3 quire each manufacturer of a durable infant or toddler 

4 product to maintain a record of registrants for each product 

5 manufactured that includes all of the information provided 

6 by each consumer registered, and to use such information 

7 to notify such consumers in the event of a voluntary or in8 voluntary recall of or safety alert regarding such product. 

9 Each manufacturer shall maintain such a record for a pe10 riod of not less than 6 years after the date of manufacture 

11 of the product. Consumer information collected by a manu12 facturer under this Act may not be used by the manufac13 turer, nor disseminated by such manufacturer to any other 

14 party, for any purpose other than notification to such con15 sumer in the event of a product recall or safety alert. 

16 (d) STUDY.—The Commission shall conduct a study 

17 at such time as it considers appropriate on the effectiveness 

18 of the consumer registration forms in facilitating product 

19 recalls. Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment 

20 of this Act, the Commission shall report its findings to Con21 gress. 


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Union Calendar No. 227 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1699 

[Report No. 110

–366] 

A BILL 

To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commisrecalls of durable infant and toddler products. consumer product registration forms to facilitate sion to require certain manufacturers to provide 

OCTOBER 9, 2007 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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