Section 2083 - Congressional veto of consumer product safety rules(a) Transmission to CongressThe Commission shall transmit to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives a copy of any consumer product
safety rule promulgated by the Commission under section 2058 of this title.
(b) Disapproval by concurrent resolutionAny rule specified in subsection (a) shall not take effect if-
(1) within the 90 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress which occur after the date of the promulgation of such rule, both Houses of the Congress adopt a concurrent resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows (with the blank spaces appropriately filled): "That the Congress disapproves the consumer product safety rule which was promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission with respect to and which was transmitted to the Congress on and disapproves the rule for the following reasons: ."; or(2) within the 60 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress which occur after the date of the promulgation of such rule, one House of the Congress adopts such concurrent resolution and transmits such resolution to the other House and such resolution is not disapproved by such other House within the 30 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress which occur after the date of such transmittal.(c) Presumptions from Congressional action or inactionCongressional inaction on, or rejection of, a concurrent resolution of disapproval under this section shall not be construed as an expression of approval of the rule involved, and shall not be construed to create any presumption of validity with respect to such rule.
(d) Continuous session of CongressFor purposes of this section-
(1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die; and(2) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the periods of continuous session of the Congress specified in subsection (b). Pub. L. 92-573, §36, as added Pub. L. 97-35, title XII, §1207(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 718.STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATESection applicable with respect to consumer product safety rules under this chapter and regulations under chapters 25 and 30 of this title promulgated after Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1215 of Pub. L. 97-35 set out as an Effective Date of 1981 Amendment note under section 2052 of this title.
- Commission
- The term "Commission" means the Consumer Product Safety Commission, established by section 2053 of this title.
- consumer product safety rule
- The term "consumer product safety rule" means a consumer products safety standard described in section 2056(a) of this title, or a rule under this chapter declaring a consumer product a banned hazardous product.