Details of House Committee Bill on Carbon Monoxide Detector Standards
The Residential Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act (H.R. 1796), which was ordered reported by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on July 15, 2010, would require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish mandatory consumer product safety standards for carbon monoxide and similar detectors.
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(The companion bill, S. 1216, was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on June 9, 2009.)
ANSI/UL Carbon Monoxide & Gas Detector Standards Would Become Mandatory
Not later than 90 days after enactment, the CPSC would be required to publish in the Federal Register as mandatory consumer product safety standards the currently voluntary American National Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms (ANSI/UL 2034) and the American National Standard for Gas and Vapor Detectors and Sensors (ANSI/UL 2075). These mandatory consumer product safety standards would take effect 180 days after their publication.
Successor standards adopted. CPSC would also adopt as mandatory any such successor ANSI/UL standards, unless it determines that the revisions do not carry out the purposes of H.R. 1796.
Further rulemaking if needed. In addition, CPSC would be able to initiate a rulemaking to include any other provision it determines is reasonably necessary to ensure the safe and effective operation of carbon monoxide alarms.
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 07/16/10 and 07/01/10 news, 10071612 and 10070134, for BP summaries of the House Energy and Commerce Committee ordering H.R. 1796 reported and marking-up the bill, respectively.)
Committee information on H.R. 1796 available here.
(Annotated on August 10, 2010 to remove a section which indicated that the Committee-approved version of the bill included a labeling requirement to show compliance with the mandatory standards. The Committee-approved version did not contain such a labeling provision.)