H.R. 4040 - Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act
- Sponsor:
- Bobby Rush
- Summary:
- To establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission. (by CRS)
- Status:
- The bill has become law.
PASSED on December 19, 2007.
2/3 required to pass
voted YES: 407
voted NO: 0
25 voted present/not voting
Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act
H.R. 4040 — 110th Congress (2007–2008)
- Keywords
- Consumer Safety, Child Safety, CPSC, China, Imports, Lead
- Summary
- To establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission. (by CRS)
- Learn More
- At OpenCongress
- Title
- To establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- Other Titles
- Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act
- Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act
- Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act
- Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act
- Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act
- CPSC Reform Act
- Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act
- Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
- Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act
- Sponsor
- Bobby Rush
- Co-Sponsors
- Madeleine Bordallo
- James Walsh
- Zachary Space
- Sheila Jackson-Lee
- Silvestre Reyes
- Baron Hill
- Robert Scott
- Carolyn McCarthy
- George Butterfield
- Raymond Green
- Barton Gordon
- Yvette Clarke
- Dave Reichert
- Dennis Moore
- Greg Walden
- Eliot Engel
- Nita Lowey
- Charles Melancon
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Sam Farr
- Alcee Hastings
- Kathy Castor
- Dennis Cardoza
- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
- Keith Ellison
- Michael McNulty
- Clifford Stearns
- Ed Perlmutter
- Nancy Boyda
- Daniel Lipinski
- Joe Barton
- Earl Pomeroy
- Gary Ackerman
- Nicholas Lampson
- Jason Altmire
- Jerry McNerney
- Michael Burgess
- Edolphus Towns
- Diana DeGette
- Ellen Tauscher
- Hilda Solis
- Charles Gonzalez
- Dale Kildee
- Tim Mahoney
- Sanford Bishop
- Gabrielle Giffords
- Thomas Allen
- Bennie Thompson
- Peter Visclosky
- Laura Richardson
- Doris Matsui
- Jeffrey Fortenberry
- James Langevin
- Charles Wilson
- Loretta Sanchez
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Allen Boyd
- Joe Courtney
- Joe Donnelly
- Henry Johnson
- Melissa Bean
- John Dingell
- Jane Harman
- Lynn Woolsey
- Barbara Lee
- Tammy Baldwin
- John Hall
- Phil Hare
- Al Green
- Robert Berry
- Joe Sestak
- Janice Schakowsky
- Jim Matheson
- Peter Welch
- Marcy Kaptur
- Rahm Emanuel
- William Clay
- John Barrow
- Jay Inslee
- Christopher Van Hollen
- Albio Sires
- Danny Davis
- Betty Sutton
- John Sarbanes
- Frederick Boucher
- Bart Stupak
- Michael Honda
- Paul Hodes
- James Moran
- Eddie Johnson
- Edward Pastor
- Elijah Cummings
- Edward Whitfield
- Albert Wynn
- Carol Shea-Porter
- Mike Ross
- Michael Doyle
- Lois Capps
- Christopher Murphy
- Henry Waxman
- John Larson
- Rubén Hinojosa
- Peter DeFazio
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Darlene Hooley
- James Clyburn
- Subjects
- Consumers
- Accident prevention
- Actions and defenses
- Administrative procedure
- Advertising
- All terrain vehicles
- Appropriations
- Authorization
- Budgets
- Business
- Business insurance
- Business records
- Carbon monoxide
- Child safety
- Children
- Cigarettes
- Clothing
- Communications
- Conflict of interests
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Consumer education
- Consumer protection
- Cost effectiveness
- Criminal justice
- Customs administration
- Damages
- Data banks
- Day care
- Death
- Defective products
- Department of Homeland Security
- Disciplining of employees
- Dismissal of employees
- Electric appliances
- Electric batteries
- Electric power production
- Electronic commerce
- Electronic government information
- Electronics
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy storage
- Executive departments
- Export controls
- Federal employees
- Federal officials
- Federal preemption
- Finance
- Fines (Penalties)
- Flammable materials
- Foreign corporations
- Foreign policy
- Formaldehyde
- Fraud
- Furniture industry
- Gasoline
- Government employees
- Government ethics
- Government information
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Governmental investigations
- Hazardous substances
- Health warnings
- Hotels, motels, etc.
- Import restrictions
- Imports
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Infants
- Injunctions
- Inspectors general
- Insurance
- International affairs
- International cooperation
- Job training
- Judicial review
- Jurisdiction
- Labeling
- Laboratories
- Language and languages
- Law
- Lead
- Lead poisoning
- Legal fees
- Legislation
- Licenses
- Mail-order business
- Manufacturing industries
- Medical care
- Medicine
- Minorities
- Minority children
- Minority health
- Misconduct in office
- Motor vehicle safety
- Nanotechnology
- Packaging
- Paints and varnishes
- Parties to actions
- Poisons
- Politics and government
- Presidential appointments
- Presidents
- Product safety
- Quality control
- Recruiting of employees
- Research and development facilities
- Retail trade
- Risk
- Safety appliances
- Science policy
- Small business
- Standards
- State and local government
- State laws
- Surety and fidelity
- Technology
- Telecommunication
- Temporary employment
- Test facilities
- Textile fabrics
- Textile industry
- Toys
- Trade
- Transfer of employees
- Transportation
- Wage restitution
- Warning labels
- Waste in government spending
- Whistle blowing
- X-rays
- Related Bills
- Major Actions
Introduced 11/01/2007 Referred to Committee Passed House 12/19/2007 Passed Senate 3/06/2008 Signed by President 8/14/2008 - Bill History
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Chamber/Committee Motion Date Result currently selected House On Passage - House - H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act - Under Suspension of the Rules 12/19/2007 This bill PASSED the House 407 voted YES 0 voted NO 25 voted present/not votingselect this vote Senate On Passage - Senate - H.R. 4040 As Amended 3/06/2008 This bill PASSED the Senate 79 voted YES 13 voted NO 8 voted present/not votingselect this vote House On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Saftey Commission Reform Act 5/14/2008 This motion PASSED the House 405 voted YES 0 voted NO 28 voted present/not votingselect this vote House On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Commission Reform Act 6/25/2008 This motion PASSED the House 415 voted YES 0 voted NO 19 voted present/not votingselect this vote House H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Commission Reform Act (under suspension of the rules) 7/30/2008 This motion PASSED the House 424 voted YES 1 voted NO 9 voted present/not votingselect this vote Senate On the Conference Report - Senate - H.R. 4040 Conference Report 8/01/2008 This motion PASSED the Senate 89 voted YES 3 voted NO 8 voted present/not votingAction Date Description Introduced 11/01/2007 11/01/2007 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 11/02/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. 11/15/2007 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. 11/15/2007 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote . 12/13/2007 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. 12/18/2007 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Put on a legislative calendar 12/18/2007 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0. 12/19/2007 Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. 12/19/2007 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-501. Put on a legislative calendar 12/19/2007 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 306. 12/19/2007 Mr. Rush moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. 12/19/2007 Considered under suspension of the rules. 12/19/2007 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4040. 12/19/2007 At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed. 12/19/2007 Considered as unfinished business. currently selected House Vote on Passage 12/19/2007 On Passage - House - H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act - Under Suspension of the Rules Put on a legislative calendar 1/23/2008 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 562. 3/06/2008 Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. 3/06/2008 Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S.2663 amended. 3/06/2008 See also S.2663. select this vote Senate Vote on Passage 3/06/2008 On Passage - Senate - H.R. 4040 As Amended 4/29/2008 Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Inouye; Pryor; Boxer; Klobuchar; Stevens; Hutchison; Sununu. 4/30/2008 Message on Senate action sent to the House. 4/30/2008 Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Hearings held. 5/14/2008 Mr. Dingell moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. 5/14/2008 On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. 5/14/2008 Mr. Whitfield (KY) moved that the House instruct conferees. 5/14/2008 The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Whitfield motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 4040. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House be instructed to insist upon the provisions contained in the House bill. 5/14/2008 The previous question was ordered without objection. 5/14/2008 The Speaker appointed conferees: Dingell, Waxman, Rush, DeGette, Schakowsky, Barton (TX), Whitfield (KY), and Stearns. select this vote Vote 5/14/2008 On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Saftey Commission Reform Act 6/23/2008 NOTICE OF INTENT TO OFFER MOTION TO INSTRUCT - Mr. Kirk notified the House of his intent to offer a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 4040. 6/25/2008 Mr. Kirk moved that the House instruct conferees. 6/25/2008 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Kirk motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 4040. The instructions contained in the motion seek to insist on the provisions contained in the House bill with regard to the definition of "children's product". 6/25/2008 The previous question was ordered without objection. 6/25/2008 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Kirk motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 4040, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion to instruct conferees and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Kirk demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced. 6/25/2008 Conference held. select this vote Vote 6/25/2008 On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Commission Reform Act 7/17/2008 Conference held. 7/29/2008 Conference report H. Rept. 110-787 filed. 7/30/2008 Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate. 7/30/2008 Mr. Dingell moved to suspend the rules and agree to the conference report, H. Rept. 110-787. 7/30/2008 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 4040. 7/30/2008 DEBATE - Mr. Dingell asked unanimous consent that debate on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the conference report to accompany H.R. 4040 be extended by 20 minutes, equally divided and controlled. Agreed to without objection. 7/30/2008 At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed. 7/30/2008 The House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 110-787 as unfinished business. 7/30/2008 Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. select this vote Vote 7/30/2008 H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Commission Reform Act (under suspension of the rules) 7/31/2008 Conference report considered in Senate. 7/31/2008 Message on Senate action sent to the House. Presented to President 7/31/2008 Cleared for White House. select this vote Vote 8/01/2008 On the Conference Report - Senate - H.R. 4040 Conference Report Presented to President 8/06/2008 Presented to President. Signed 8/14/2008 Signed by President. Enacted 8/14/2008 Became Public Law No: 110-314. Number Sponsor Date Offered Status
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