CPSIA References

I made this overview of the CPSIA last week and have been referring to it every day in my quest to sort out this new legislation. So I thought it might be useful to you, too. If there is anything else you think should be here, or anything is confusing, please pipe up.

INTRO
From Wikipedia:

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 is a US law signed on August 14, 2008 by President George W. Bush. The legislative bill was known as HR 4040, sponsored by Congressman Bobby Rush. The law�public law 110-314�increases the budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), imposes new testing and documentation requirements, and sets new acceptable levels of several substances. It imposes new requirements on manufacturers of apparel, shoes, personal care products, accessories and jewelry, home furnishings, bedding, toys, electronics and video games, books, school supplies, educational materials and science kits. The Act also increases fines and specifies jail time for some violations.

LEGISLATION
Full legislative history of the CPSIA.

The full legislation of the CPSIA (pdf).

All amended statutes.

Summary of all changes made to the original Consumer Product Safety Act of 1976, including by the CPSIA, prepared by the CPSC (pdf).

CPSC
CPSC informational site.

CPSC summaries of individual sections of the Act, along with FAQs.

CPSC FAQ about CPSIA, broken down by sections.

Get email alerts directly from the CPSC whenever they update the CPSIA web site.

RSS feed for changes to CPSIA informational site.

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