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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 manu-
facturers 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 Il-
linois, 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 re-
quire certain manufacturers to provide consumer product 
registration forms to facilitate recalls of durable infant 
and toddler products. 
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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 ‘‘Danny Keysar Child 
Product Safety Notification Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(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 departments 
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 nurs-
ery 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 injuries 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 
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(or 27 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. 
(2) DURABLE INFANT OR TODDLER PRODUCT.— 
The term ‘‘durable infant or toddler product’’— 
(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) shall include— 
(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) infant carriers; 
(ix) strollers; 
(x) walkers; 
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(xi) swings; and 
(xii) bassinets and cradles. 
SEC. 4. CONSUMER PRODUCT REGISTRATION FORMS. 
(a) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall, pursu-
ant 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 rule 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, addresses, 
email addresses, and other contact information of con-
sumers who register their ownership of such products 
with the manufacturer in order to improve the effec-
tiveness of manufacturer campaigns to recall such 
products; and 
(3) to permanently place the manufacturer name 
and contact information, model name and number, 
and the date of manufacture on each durable infant 
or toddler product. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION FORM.—The 
registration form required to be provided to consumers 
under subsection (a) shall— 
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(1) include spaces for a consumer to provide 
their name, address, telephone number, and email ad-
dress; 
(2) include space sufficiently large to permit 
easy, legible recording of all desired information; 
(3) be attached to the surface of each durable in-
fant or toddler product so that, as a practical matter, 
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 consumers 
to complete the registration; 
(6) include an option for consumers to register 
through the Internet; and 
(7) include a statement that information pro-
vided by the consumer shall not be used for any pur-
pose other than to facilitate a recall of or safety alert 
regarding that product. 
In issuing regulations under this section, the Commission 
may prescribe the exact text and format of the required reg-
istration form. 
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(c) RECORD KEEPING AND NOTIFICATION REQUIRE-
MENTS.—The standard required under this section shall re-
quire each manufacturer of a durable infant or toddler 
product to maintain a record of registrants for each product 
manufactured that includes all of the information provided 
by each consumer registered, and to use such information 
to notify such consumers in the event of a voluntary or in-
voluntary recall of or safety alert regarding such product. 
Each manufacturer shall maintain such a record for a pe-
riod of not less than 6 years after the date of manufacture 
of the product. Consumer information collected by a manu-
facturer under this Act may not be used by the manufac-
turer, nor disseminated by such manufacturer to any other 
party, for any purpose other than notification to such con-
sumer 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 effectiveness 
of the consumer registration forms in facilitating product 
recalls. Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Commission shall report its findings to Con-
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 Commis-
sion to require certain manufacturers to provide 
consumer product registration forms to facilitate 
recalls of durable infant and toddler products. 
OCTOBER 9, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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