Title: STURDY Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act or the STURDY ActThis bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to revise the safety standards for freestanding clothing storage units such as a dressers, bureaus, or chests of drawers. Such standards must include specified testing related to tip overs and new warning requirements for all such products entering the U.S. market.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1902 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1902

   To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a 
 consumer product safety rule for free-standing clothing storage units 
  to protect children from tip-over related death or injury, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 19, 2019

 Mr. Casey (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a 
 consumer product safety rule for free-standing clothing storage units 
  to protect children from tip-over related death or injury, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky 
Dressers on Youth Act'' or the ``STURDY Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD TO PROTECT AGAINST TIP-OVER OF 
              FREE-STANDING CLOTHING STORAGE UNITS.

    (a) Free-Standing Clothing Storage Unit Defined.--
            (1) In general.--In this section, the term ``free-standing 
        clothing storage unit'' means any piece of furniture 
        manufactured in the United States or imported for use in the 
        United States that is intended for the storage of clothing, 
        including furniture items that--
                    (A) are commonly referred to as a chest, door 
                chest, chest of drawers, dresser, or bureau; or
                    (B) may contain a chest, door chest, chest of 
                drawers, dresser, or bureau.
            (2) CPSC definition.--The Consumer Product Safety 
        Commission may adjust the definition under paragraph (1) if the 
        Commission determines that inclusion of additional furniture 
        items is reasonably necessary to protect public health and 
        safety.
    (b) Consumer Product Safety Standard Required.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in subsection (c)(1), 
        not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission shall--
                    (A) in consultation with representatives of 
                consumer groups, clothing storage unit manufacturers, 
                and independent child product engineers and experts, 
                examine and assess the effectiveness of any voluntary 
                consumer product safety standards for free-standing 
                clothing storage units; and
                    (B) in accordance with section 553 of title 5, 
                United States Code, promulgate a final consumer product 
                safety standard for free-standing clothing storage 
                units to protect children from tip-over-related death 
                or injury that includes--
                            (i) tests that require the use of weight to 
                        simulate children up to 72 months of age using 
                        the most recent anthropometric data;
                            (ii) tests or testing that more closely 
                        simulate real world use including to account 
                        for impact on clothing storage unit stability 
                        of carpeting, drawers with items in them, 
                        multiple open drawers, and dynamic force;
                            (iii) testing of all clothing storage 
                        units, including those under 30 inches in 
                        height; and
                            (iv) warning requirements that--
                                    (I) strengthen requirements for 
                                permanency and conspicuous placement 
                                now in ASTM F2057-17; and
                                    (II) revise the message panel text 
                                of ASTM F2057-17 to make more 
                                understandable, consistent with typical 
                                clothing storage unit use, and written 
                                to motivate consumer compliance.
            (2) Treatment of standard.--A consumer product safety 
        standard promulgated under paragraph (1) shall be treated as a 
        consumer product safety rule promulgated under section 9 of the 
        Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2058).
    (c) Subsequent Rulemaking.--
            (1) In general.--At any time subsequent to the publication 
        of a consumer product safety standard under subsection (b)(1), 
        the Consumer Product Safety Commission may initiate a 
        rulemaking, in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United 
        States Code--
                    (A) to modify the requirements of the consumer 
                product safety standard described in subsection (b)(1); 
                or
                    (B) to include any additional provision in such 
                consumer product safety standard that the Commission 
                determines is reasonably necessary to protect public 
                health or safety.
            (2) Treatment of rules.--Any rule promulgated under 
        paragraph (1) shall be treated as a consumer product safety 
        rule promulgated under section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety 
        Act (15 U.S.C. 2058).
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