Title: Portable Generator Safety STANDARD Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Portable Generator Safety Standard To Avoid Needless Deaths And Reduce Disabilities Act or the Portable Generator Safety STANDARD Act
This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish safety standards for portable generators.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8928 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8928

 To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require portable 
 generators to meet certain standards relating to carbon monoxide, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2020

   Mr. Rush introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require portable 
 generators to meet certain standards relating to carbon monoxide, 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 ``Portable Generator Safety Standard 
To Avoid Needless Deaths And Reduce Disabilities Act'' or the 
``Portable Generator Safety STANDARD Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR PORTABLE GENERATORS.

    (a) Final Standard for Portable Generators.--
            (1) Final standard.--Not later than 1 year after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety 
        Commission shall promulgate, in accordance with section 553 of 
        title 5, United States Code, a final consumer product safety 
        standard for portable generators to protect consumers from 
        death or injury relating to the use of such generators.
            (2) Requirements.--The final standard promulgated under 
        paragraph (1) shall incorporate requirements that are 
        substantially the same as, or more stringent than, each of the 
        following:
                    (A) The requirements of the American National 
                Standard for Carbon Monoxide Emission Rate of Portable 
                Generators (ANSI/UL 2201), or any related successor 
                standard, that relate to carbon monoxide concentration 
                limits.
                    (B) The requirements of the American National 
                Standard for Safety and Performance of Portable 
                Generators (ANSI/PGMA G300-2018), or any related 
                successor standard, except where such requirements 
                conflict with any other requirement under this 
                paragraph.
                    (C) A requirement that a portable generator shall 
                include clear and conspicuous labeling marking the 
                direction of exhaust.
                    (D) A requirement that the cord of a portable 
                generator may not be shorter than 30 feet in length.
                    (E) A requirement that the weighted carbon monoxide 
                emission rate of a portable generator may not exceed--
                            (i) for a portable generator powered by a 
                        handheld or Class I spark-ignition engine, a 
                        rate of 75 grams per hour;
                            (ii) for a portable generator powered by a 
                        Class II spark-ignition engine with one 
                        cylinder, a rate of 150 grams per hour; and
                            (iii) for a portable generator powered by a 
                        Class II spark-ignition engine with two 
                        cylinders, a rate of 300 grams per hour.
                    (F) A requirement relating to the shutoff 
                capability of a portable generator in an elevated 
                carbon monoxide environment.
                    (G) Other shutoff requirements and test 
                specifications the Commission determines necessary to 
                protect consumers from the risk of injury relating to 
                the use of portable generators.
            (3) Compliance dates.--
                    (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph 
                (B), the Commission shall include in the final standard 
                promulgated under paragraph (1) a compliance date that 
                is not later than 1 year after the date of such 
                promulgation, by which portable generators shall comply 
                with the final standard.
                    (B) Handheld and class i engines.--With respect to 
                portable generators powered by handheld or Class I 
                spark-ignition engines, the Commission may include a 
                separate compliance date that is not later than 18 
                months after the date of the promulgation of the final 
                standard.
            (4) Review and revision of standard.--Beginning 1 year 
        after the date of the promulgation of the final standard under 
        paragraph (1) and not less frequently than every 5 years 
        thereafter, the Commission shall review and revise such 
        standard to ensure the highest level of safety feasible with 
        respect to portable generators.
            (5) Treatment of standard.--The final standard promulgated 
        under paragraph (1), including any revision of such standard 
        made pursuant to paragraph (4), shall be treated as a consumer 
        product safety rule promulgated under section 9 of the Consumer 
        Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2058).
    (b) Interim Standard for Portable Generators.--
            (1) Interim standard.--Beginning on the date that is 6 
        months after the date of the enactment of this Act and ending 
        on the date that the final standard promulgated under 
        subsection (a)(1) goes into effect, it shall be unlawful for a 
        person to import into or distribute in commerce in the United 
        States a portable generator, unless--
                    (A) the portable generator complies with the 
                requirements of ANSI/UL 2201 or ANSI/PGMA G300-2018; 
                and
                    (B) the engine of such generator shuts off before 
                the carbon monoxide concentration exceeds 600 parts per 
                million by volume (ppm) or a 10-minute rolling average 
                of 275 ppm.
            (2) Violation.--Failure to comply with paragraph (1) shall 
        be treated as a violation of section 19 of the Consumer Product 
        Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2068).
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