I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4023 
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue regulations 
mandating child-resistant closures on all portable gasoline containers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7, 2005 
Mr. BACHUS (for himself, Mr. MOORE of Kansas, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. WELDON 
of Pennsylvania, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. BOS-
WELL, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. UDALL of New 
Mexico, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mrs. MCCARTHY, Mr. MELANCON, 
Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. NADLER, Mr. LARSON of 
Connecticut, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. MEEHAN, Ms. SLAUGH-
TER, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. HOYER, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, 
Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mr. HIN-
CHEY, Mr. WEINER, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. DAVIS 
of Alabama, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. EDDIE BER-
NICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. HOLT, Ms. CARSON, 
Ms. DELAURO, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. 
SCHWARTZ of Pennsylvania, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. MATHE-
SON, Mr. CARDOZA, Mr. WU, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, Mrs. 
NAPOLITANO, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HOLDEN, Ms. 
BERKLEY, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. HONDA, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. 
ISRAEL, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Mr. INSLEE, 
Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, and Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce 
A BILL 
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to 
issue regulations mandating child-resistant closures on 
all portable gasoline containers.
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 ‘‘Children’s Gasoline 
Burn Prevention Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CHILD-RESISTANT PORTABLE GASOLINE CON-
TAINERS. 
(a) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD.— 
Within 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Consumer Product Safety Commission shall promul-
gate, as final consumer product safety standards under 
section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 
2058), child-resistance standards for closures on all port-
able gasoline containers. Such standards shall be substan-
tially the same as the standard ASTM F2517–05, issued 
by ASTM International, or any successor standard issued 
by ASTM International. 
(b) APPLICATION OF CERTAIN PROMULGATION RE-
QUIREMENTS.—The requirements of subsections (a) 
through (f) of section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety 
Act (15 U.S.C. 2058(a) through (f)) shall not apply to 
the consumer product safety standards required by sub-
section (a) of this section.
(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this Act, the term 
‘‘portable gasoline container’’ means a portable gasoline 
container intended for use by consumers. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The consumer product safe-
ty standard required by subsection (a) shall take effect 
on the date that is 6 months after the date on which such 
standard shall be promulgated. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission shall transmit to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate a report on— 
(1) the degree of industry compliance with the 
standard promulgated under subsection (a); 
(2) any enforcement actions brought by the 
Commission to enforce such standard; and 
(3) incidents involving children interacting with 
portable gasoline containers (including both those 
that are and are not in compliance with the stand-
ard promulgated under subsection (a)). 
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