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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 614 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to develop and implement |
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| 6 | 6 | | a public awareness campaign with respect to grill safety, and for other |
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| 7 | 7 | | purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY22, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. G |
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| 11 | 11 | | OTTHEIMERintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to de- |
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| 15 | 15 | | velop and implement a public awareness campaign with |
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| 16 | 16 | | respect to grill safety, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening Aware-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | ness and Funding Education for Grilling Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ‘‘SAFE Grilling Act’’. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Congress finds that, according to the National Fire 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Protection Association and the Consumer Product Safety 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Commission, during the years 2017 through 2021— 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) an average of 22,155 individuals each year 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | went to an emergency room due to injuries involving 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | grills; 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) gas grills were involved in an average of 8 |
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| 34 | 34 | | 9,079 home fires each year, with 4,454 structure 9 |
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| 35 | 35 | | fires and 4,625 outdoor fires averaged annually; 10 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (3) leaks or breaks were a significant problem 11 |
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| 37 | 37 | | with gas grills, as 6 percent of structure fires related 12 |
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| 38 | 38 | | to gas grills and 15 percent of outdoor fires related 13 |
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| 39 | 39 | | to gas grills were caused by leaks or breaks; 14 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (4) more than 25 percent of structure fires re-15 |
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| 41 | 41 | | lated to grills began on an exterior balcony or open 16 |
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| 42 | 42 | | porch, 8 percent began when an outside wall caught 17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | fire, and 4 percent began with some type of struc-18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | tural member or framing; 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (5) July was the peak month for fires related 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | to grills (16 percent of such fires), followed by June 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (14 percent), May (12 percent), and August (11 per-22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | cent); and 23 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (6) a grill that had not been cleaned was in-24 |
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| 50 | 50 | | volved in roughly 20 percent of fires related to grills. 25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | SEC. 3. PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN WITH RESPECT TO 1 |
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| 55 | 55 | | GRILL SAFETY. 2 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (a) R |
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| 57 | 57 | | EQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 year after the 3 |
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| 58 | 58 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product 4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Safety Commission shall develop and implement a public 5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | awareness campaign to educate the public with respect 6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | to— 7 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (1) dangers associated with cooking using a 8 |
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| 63 | 63 | | grill; and 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (2) best practices for using a grill safely to pre-10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | vent injuries and fires. 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (b) A |
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| 67 | 67 | | UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 12 |
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| 68 | 68 | | authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 to carry out this 13 |
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| 69 | 69 | | section. 14 |
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