What This Bill Does
This bill tells the Consumer Product Safety Commission to create safety rules for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in small personal transportation devices like electric bikes and electric scooters. The rules must protect people from fires caused by these batteries.
Who It Affects
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (the federal agency that sets product safety standards), manufacturers of electric bikes and electric scooters, makers of battery chargers and related equipment, and people who use these devices.
Key Provisions
• The Consumer Product Safety Commission must create a final safety standard for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries in micromobility devices within one year after the law passes. (Sec. 2(a)(1))
• The standard must cover batteries, chargers, charging cables, external battery terminals, device terminals, and free-standing charging stations used with these devices. (Sec. 2(a)(2))
• The Commission must decide which specific products fall under the standard and make sure those products are within its authority to regulate and necessary to prevent fires. (Sec. 2(b))
• The Commission may change or update the standard requirements at any time after creating it. (Sec. 2(c))
• The safety standard becomes a consumer product safety rule under federal law. (Sec. 2(d))
What Changes
If this bill becomes law, the Consumer Product Safety Commission must establish new mandatory safety standards for lithium-ion batteries used in electric bikes, electric scooters and related equipment. These standards will be legally enforceable rules that manufacturers must follow.
Important Definitions
Micromobility devices: small personal transportation vehicles including electric bicycles and electric scooters.
Effective Date
Not specified in bill text
IIB
118TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 1797
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY 16, 2024
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation
AN ACT
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to
promulgate a consumer product safety standard with re-
spect to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in micro-
mobility devices, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Setting Consumer
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Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act’’.
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SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR CER-
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TAIN BATTERIES.
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(a) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD RE-
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QUIRED.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after
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the date of the enactment of this Act, the Consumer
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Product Safety Commission shall promulgate, under
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section 553 of title 5, United States Code, a final
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consumer product safety standard for rechargeable
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lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility devices,
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including electric bicycles and electric scooters, to
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protect against the risk of fires caused by such bat-
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teries.
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(2) INCLUSION OF RELATED EQUIPMENT.—The
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standard promulgated under paragraph (1) shall in-
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clude requirements with respect to equipment related
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to or used with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
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used in micromobility devices, including battery
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chargers, charging cables, external terminals on bat-
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tery packs, external terminals on micromobility de-
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vices, and free-standing stations used for recharging.
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(b) CPSC DETERMINATION OF SCOPE.—In promul-
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gating the standard under subsection (a), the Commission
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shall determine the types of products subject to the stand-
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ard and shall ensure that such products are—
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(1) within the jurisdiction of the Commission;
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and
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(2) reasonably necessary to include to protect
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against the risk of fires.
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(c) MODIFICATIONS.—At any time after the promul-
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gation of the standard under subsection (a), the Commis-
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sion may, through a rulemaking under section 553 of title
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5, United States Code, modify the requirements of the
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standard.
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(d) TREATMENT OF STANDARD.—A standard pro-
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mulgated under this section, including a modification of
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such standard, shall be treated as a consumer product
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safety rule promulgated under section 9 of the Consumer
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Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2058).
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Passed the House of Representatives May 15, 2024.
Attest:
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
Clerk.
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