Sec. 3311. Funding for consumer product safety fund to protect consumers from potentially dangerous products related to COVID–19
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Consumer Product Safety Commission for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, for the purposes described in subsection (b). The funds made available in subsection
(a)shall only be used for purposes of the Consumer Product Safety Commission to— carry out the requirements in title XX of division FF of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 ( Public Law 116–260 ); enhance targeting, surveillance, and screening of consumer products, particularly COVID–19 products, entering the United States at ports of entry, including ports of entry for de minimis shipments; enhance monitoring of internet websites for the offering for sale of new and used violative consumer products, particularly COVID–19 products, and coordination with retail and resale websites to improve identification and elimination of listings of such products; increase awareness and communication particularly of COVID–19 product related risks and other consumer product safety information; and improve the Commission’s data collection and analysis system especially with a focus on consumer product safety risks resulting from the COVID–19 pandemic to socially disadvantaged individuals and other vulnerable populations. In this section— the term Commission means the Consumer Product Safety Commission; the term de minimis shipments means articles containing consumer products entering the United States under the de minimis value exemption in section 321(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C) ); the term violative consumer products means consumer products in violation of an applicable consumer product safety standard under the Consumer Product Safety Act ( 15 U.S.C. 2051 et seq.) or any similar rule, regulation, standard, or ban under any other Act enforced by the Commission; the term COVID–19 emergency period means the period during which a public health emergency declared pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) with respect to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID–19), including under any renewal of such declaration, is in effect; and the term COVID–19 products means products whose risks have been significantly affected by COVID–19 or whose sales have materially increased during the COVID–19 emergency period as a result of the COVID–19 pandemic.
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Funding for consumer product safety fund to protect consumers from potentially dangerous products related to COVID–19
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