[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1887 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1887

  To clarify terms of cooperation between the Consumer Product Safety 
 Commission and foreign government agencies in order to improve safety 
             of imported products, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 20, 2013

Mrs. McCaskill introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify terms of cooperation between the Consumer Product Safety 
 Commission and foreign government agencies in order to improve safety 
             of imported products, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION FOR FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO SHARE INFORMATION 
              OBTAINED FROM THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION.

    Section 29(f) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 
2078(f)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (5) as 
        paragraphs (3) through (6), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Additional provisions for foreign government 
        agencies.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Commission may authorize a 
                foreign government agency that obtains information from 
                the Commission under paragraph (1) to make that 
                information available to another foreign government 
                agency of the same foreign government, including a 
                political subdivision of that foreign government that 
                is located within the same territory or administrative 
                area as the foreign government agency disclosing the 
                information, if an appropriate official of the foreign 
                government agency disclosing the information certifies, 
                by prior agreement, memorandum of understanding with 
                the Commission, or other written certification, that 
                the foreign government agency will establish and apply 
                confidentiality restrictions that conform with the 
                restrictions under paragraph (1).
                    ``(B) Construction.--Nothing in this paragraph 
                shall be construed to prohibit a foreign government 
                agency that obtains information from the Commission 
                under paragraph (1) from disclosing that information to 
                a legislative or judicial authority with jurisdiction 
                over that foreign government agency.''; and
            (3) by amending paragraph (4), as redesignated, by striking 
        ``paragraph (4)'' and inserting ``paragraph (5)''.
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