[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7929 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7929

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue certain regulations 
    with respect to the safe transportation of lithium-ion cells or 
                   batteries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2026

  Ms. Titus introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue certain regulations 
    with respect to the safe transportation of lithium-ion cells or 
                   batteries, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Firefighter Lithium-ion Awareness 
and Readiness Enhancement Act'' or the ``FLARE Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASING ACCESS TO THERMAL RUNAWAY SUPPRESSION TOOLS.

    Section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 
(15 U.S.C. 2229) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph 
                (11);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as 
                paragraphs (8) and (9), respectively;
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following:
            ``(7) Lithium-ion cell or battery.--The term `lithium-ion 
        cell or battery'--
                    ``(A) means a rechargeable electrochemical cell or 
                battery in which the positive and negative electrodes 
                are both intercalation compounds constructed with no 
                metallic lithium in either electrode; but
                    ``(B) does not include a cell or battery described 
                in subsections (c) and (g)(2) of section 173.185 of 
                title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.''; and
                    (D) by inserting after paragraph (9) (as so 
                redesignated) the following:
            ``(10) Thermal runaway.--The term `thermal runaway' means 
        an uncontrolled increase of cell temperature caused by 
        exothermic reactions inside cells and batteries, including 
        lithium-ion cells or batteries.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(3)(A)--
                    (A) in clause (iv) by striking ``or'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (v) by striking the period at the end 
                and inserting ``, including lithium-ion cells or 
                batteries; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(vi) suppressing fires resulting from 
                        thermal runaway.''; and
            (3) in subsection (d)(3)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) as 
                subparagraph (F); and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the 
                following:
                    ``(E) To fund programs to suppress fires resulting 
                from thermal runaway.''.
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