To make improvements to the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act.

Bill: 113-hr-1456
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-10
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety and welfare

Oil and gas

Product safety and quality
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act to require each portable fuel container manufactured for sale in the United States and intended for use by consumers to conform to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International standard specifications for: (1) child resistance of portable fuel containers for consumer use; (2) cautionary labeling of portable gasoline, kerosene, and diesel containers for consumer use; and (3) portable kerosene and diesel containers for consumer use. Considers such standards to be a consumer product safety rule issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).</p> <p>Requires ASTM International to notify CPSC of any proposed revision to applicable standards. Requires the proposed revision to be incorporated in the consumer product safety rule unless CPSC notifies ASTM International that such revision does not carry out the purposes of this Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1456 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 10, 2013 Mr. Cole (for himself, Mr. Mullin , Mr. Long , and Mr. Latta ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To make improvements to the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention Act.

1. Amendment to the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention Act Section 2 of the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention Act ( Public Law 110–278 ; 122 Stat. 2602) is amended— (1) in the heading, by striking Child-Resistant Portable Gasoline Containers and inserting Portable Fuel Container Standards ; (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following new subsection: (b) Requirements Effective 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, each portable fuel container manufactured on or after that date for sale in the United States shall conform to the provisions of ASTM standards F852–08, F2517–09, F839–83 (2006), F976–08, F926–02 (2007), as they are by their terms applicable to gasoline, kerosene, or diesel portable fuel containers, as issued by ASTM International. ; (3) in subsection (c), by striking gasoline each place that it appears; and (4) in subsection (d), by striking child resistance requirements of ASTM F2517–05 and inserting provisions of any standard described in subsection (b), .