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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1767
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a manda-
tory consumer product safety standard with respect to retractable
awnings.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH3, 2025
Mr. B
ALDERSON(for himself and Ms. CASTORof Florida) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to
promulgate a mandatory consumer product safety stand-
ard with respect to retractable awnings.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Awning Safety Act 4
of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR RE-6
TRACTABLE AWNINGS. 7
(a) C
ONSUMERPRODUCTSAFETYSTANDARDRE-8
QUIRED.—Not later than 18 months after the date of the 9
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enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety Com-1
mission shall promulgate, under section 553 of title 5, 2
United States Code, a final consumer product safety 3
standard for fixed and freestanding retractable awnings 4
within the jurisdiction of the Commission to protect 5
against the risk of death or serious injury related to the 6
hazards associated with such awnings, including the risk 7
of death or serious injury related to the awning unexpect-8
edly opening and striking a person while removing the 9
bungee tie-downs for the cover of the awning. 10
(b) CPSC D
ETERMINATION OF SCOPE.—The Con-11
sumer Product Safety Commission shall specify the types 12
of retractable awning devices within the jurisdiction of the 13
Commission that are within the scope of subsection (a) 14
as part of a standard promulgated under this section, as 15
reasonably necessary to protect against hazards associated 16
with retractable awnings. 17
(c) T
REATMENT OF STANDARD.—A consumer prod-18
uct safety standard promulgated under subsection (a) 19
shall be treated as a consumer product safety rule promul-20
gated under sections 7 and 9 of the Consumer Product 21
Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 and 2058). 22
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