Title: Safe Sleep for Babies Act of 2021
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Safe Sleep for Babies Act of 2021This bill makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or distribute crib bumpers or inclined sleepers for infants. Specifically, inclined sleepers for infants are those designed for an infant up to one year old and have an inclined sleep surface of greater than 10 degrees. Crib bumpers generally are padded materials inserted around the inside of a crib and intended to prevent the crib occupant from becoming trapped in any part of the crib's openings; they do not include unpadded, mesh crib liners.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3182 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3182

To provide that inclined sleepers for infants and crib bumpers shall be 
 considered banned hazardous products under section 8 of the Consumer 
              Product Safety Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 13, 2021

Mr. Cardenas (for himself and Ms. Schakowsky) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that inclined sleepers for infants and crib bumpers shall be 
 considered banned hazardous products under section 8 of the Consumer 
              Product Safety Act, 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 for Babies Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. BANNING OF INCLINED SLEEPERS FOR INFANTS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, inclined sleepers for infants, regardless of the 
date of manufacture, shall be considered a banned hazardous product 
under section 8 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2057).
    (b) Inclined Sleeper for Infants Defined.--In this section, 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 1 year 
old.

SEC. 3. BANNING OF CRIB BUMPERS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, crib bumpers, regardless of the date of 
manufacture, shall be considered a banned hazardous product under 
section 8 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2057).
    (b) Crib Bumper Defined.--In this section, the term ``crib 
bumper''--
            (1) means any material that is intended to cover the sides 
        of a crib to prevent injury to any crib occupant from impacts 
        against the side of a crib or to prevent partial or complete 
        access to any openings in the sides of a crib to prevent a crib 
        occupant from getting any part of the body entrapped in any 
        opening;
            (2) includes a padded crib bumper, a supported and 
        unsupported vinyl bumper guard, and vertical crib slat covers; 
        and
            (3) does not include a non-padded mesh crib liner.
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