Title: Safe Sleep Act of 2019
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Safe Sleep Act of 2019This bill makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or distribute inclined sleepers for infants. Specifically, inclined sleepers for infants are those that are designed for an infant up to one year old and have an inclined sleep surface of greater than 10 degrees. The bill also requires that any rules promulgated by the Consumer Product Saftey Commission with respect to infant sleepers are consistent with prevailing safe sleep best practices.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1767 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1767

 To prohibit the manufacture for sale, offer for sale, distribution in 
commerce, or importation into the United States of any inclined sleeper 
                  for infants, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2019

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 prohibit the manufacture for sale, offer for sale, distribution in 
commerce, or importation into the United States of any inclined sleeper 
                  for infants, 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 ``Safe Sleep Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF INCLINED SLEEPERS FOR INFANTS.

    (a) Prohibition on the Sale of Inclined Sleepers for Infants.--
Beginning on the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture for sale, 
offer for sale, distribute in commerce, or import into the United 
States any inclined sleeper for infants.
    (b) Treatment of Violation.--A violation of subsection (a) shall be 
treated as a violation of section 19(a)(1) of the Consumer Product 
Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2068(a)(1)).

SEC. 3. FUTURE CPSC ACTION.

    (a) In General.--The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in 
accordance with section 104 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement 
Act of 2008 (15 U.S.C. 2056a) may promulgate a consumer product safety 
standard for a product category intended, marketed, or designed to 
provide sleeping accommodations for an infant up to one year old only 
if such standard is consistent with safe sleep best practices as agreed 
upon by representatives of consumer groups, nationally recognized 
organization representing pediatricians, juvenile product 
manufacturers, and independent child product engineers and experts.
    (b) Interpretation.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
prohibit the Consumer Product Safety Commission from promulgating, in 
accordance with section 104 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement 
Act of 2008 (15 U.S.C. 2056a), consumer product safety standards for 
products not intended, marketed or designed to provide sleeping 
accommodations for an infant up to one year old.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``inclined sleeper for infants'' means a 
product with an inclined sleep surface greater than ten degrees that is 
intended, marketed, or designed to provide sleeping accommodations for 
an infant up to one year old.
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