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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6141 
To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require certain manu-
facturers to provide consumer product registration forms to facilitate 
recalls of durable infant and toddler products. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to re-
quire certain manufacturers to provide consumer product 
registration forms to facilitate recalls of durable infant 
and toddler products. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Product Safety 
Notification Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Unintentional injuries are the leading cause 
of death among children, and for every such injury 
that is fatal, approximately 18 children are hospital-
ized and 1,250 are treated by emergency depart-
ments for such injuries that are nonfatal. 
(2) According to the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission, an average of 50 children under the 
age of 5 die each year in incidents associated with 
nursery products, and about 16 of these deaths each 
year are associated with cribs. 
(3) In 2003, an estimated 60,700 children 
under the age of 5 were treated in United States 
hospital emergency rooms for injuries associated 
with nursery products, and there were 10,700 inju-
ries to children under the age of 5 years associated 
with strollers alone. 
(4) Of the 397 recalls issued by the Consumer 
Product Safety Commission in fiscal year 2005, 109 
(or 28 percent) were children’s products. Children’s 
products were recalled, on average, over 2 times per 
week, and accounted for 19,635,627 individual units. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 
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(2) DURABLE
INFANT
OR
TODDLER
PROD-
UCT.—The term ‘‘durable infant or toddler prod-
uct’’— 
(A) means a durable product intended for 
use, or that may be reasonably expected to be 
used, by children under the age of 5 years; and 
(B) includes— 
(i) full-size cribs and nonfull-size 
cribs; 
(ii) toddler beds; 
(iii) high chairs, booster chairs, and 
hook-on chairs; 
(iv) bath seats; 
(v) gates and other enclosures for con-
fining a child; 
(vi) play yards; 
(vii) stationary activity centers; 
(viii) child carriers; 
(ix) strollers; 
(x) walkers; 
(xi) swings; 
(xii) bassinets and cradles; and 
(xiii) children’s folding chairs. 
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SEC. 4. CONSUMER PRODUCT REGISTRATION FORMS. 
(a) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 270 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall, pur-
suant to its authority under section 16(b) of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2065(b)), promulgate a 
final consumer product safety standard under section 7 
of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2056) to require manufacturers 
of durable infant or toddler products— 
(1) to provide consumers with a postage-paid 
consumer registration form with each such product; 
(2) to maintain a record of the names, address-
es, email addresses, and other contact information of 
consumers who register their ownership of such 
products with the manufacturer in order to improve 
the effectiveness of manufacturer campaigns to re-
call such products; and 
(3) to permanently place the manufacturer 
name and contact information, model name and 
number, and the date of manufacture on each dura-
ble infant or toddler product. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS
FOR REGISTRATION FORM.— 
The registration form required to be provided to con-
sumers under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) include spaces for a consumer to provide 
their name, address, telephone number, and email 
address; 
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(2) include space sufficiently large to permit 
easy, legible recording of all desired information; 
(3) be attached to the surface of each durable 
infant or toddler product so that, as a practical mat-
ter, the consumer must notice and handle the form 
after purchasing the product; 
(4) include the manufacturer’s name, model 
name and number for the product, and the date of 
manufacture; 
(5) include a message explaining the purpose of 
the registration and designed to encourage con-
sumers to complete the registration; 
(6) include an option for consumers to register 
through the Internet; and 
(7) a statement that information provided by 
the consumer shall not be used for any purpose 
other than to facilitate a recall of or safety alert re-
garding that product. 
In issuing regulations under this section, the Commission 
may prescribe the exact text and format of the required 
registration form. 
(c) RECORD KEEPING AND NOTIFICATION REQUIRE-
MENTS.—The standard required under this section shall 
require each manufacturer of a durable infant or toddler 
product to maintain a record of registrants for each prod-
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uct manufactured that includes all of the information pro-
vided by each consumer registered, and to use such infor-
mation to notify such consumers in the event of a vol-
untary or involuntary recall of or safety alert regarding 
such product. Each manufacturer shall maintain such a 
record for a period of not less than 6 years after the date 
of manufacture of the product. Consumer information col-
lected by a manufacturer under this Act may not be used 
by the manufacturer, nor disseminated by such manufac-
turer to any other party, for any purpose other than notifi-
cation to such consumer in the event of a product recall 
or safety alert. 
(d) STUDY.—The Commission shall conduct a study 
at such time as it considers appropriate on the effective-
ness of the consumer registration forms in facilitating 
product recalls. Upon the conclusion of such study, the 
Commission shall report its findings to Congress. 
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