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This bill – the STURDY Act — would seek to make furniture safer for young children by directing the Consumer Product Safety Commission to adopt a stronger, mandatory stability standard for free-standing clothing storage units (such as dressers, chests, chests of dressers, or bureaus) within one year of its enactment.

This standard would follow the streamlined rulemaking process that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has used for numerous children’s products, and could be based on a voluntary standard (such as the American Society for Testing and Materials’ International standard). It would be required to include specific additional criteria to ensure children’s safety. The additional criteria that would be required include:

An increased weight limit to simulate the weight of children up to six years old (72 months);
Testing under real world conditions such as climbing, carpeted floors, and open drawers;
Inclusion of smaller clothing storage units (defined as those under 30 inches in height); and
Strengthened warning requirements.

This bill’s full title is the Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act.

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