HR 973
Passed a chamber
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to adopt existing UL and ANSI battery and electrical safety standards for e-bikes and other personal e-mobility devices as mandatory consumer product safety rules within 180 days.
Official title: Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
04-FEB-2025
Referred
04-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
08-APR-2025
Reported
24-APR-2025
On the calendar
24-APR-2025
Passed
28-APR-2025
Senate
Received
29-APR-2025
- Requires the Commission, within 180 days of enactment, to issue three existing ANSI/UL standards as final consumer product safety standards, covering light electric vehicle batteries, eBike electrical systems, and personal e-mobility device electrical systems.
- Limits the standards to consumer products as defined in the Consumer Product Safety Act.
- Treats later revisions of those voluntary standards as Commission standards, taking effect 180 days after notice unless the Commission finds within 90 days that the revision does not improve safety.
- Requires the Commission to report to Congress within 5 years on fires, explosions, and other lithium-ion battery hazards in micromobility products, including the battery's make, model, manufacturer, and country of manufacture where known.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (04-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 28-APR-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
Commerce
■ 17 D■ 6 R
17 Democrats
6 Republicans