H.R. 6065 (112th): To make improvements to the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention Act.

HR 6065 IH

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

June 29, 2012

Mr. COLE (for himself, Mr. BOREN, and Mr. LONG) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 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),’.

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