BILL NUMBER: SB 772	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 19161.4 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to home furnishings.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 772, as introduced, Leno. Home furnishings: juvenile products.
   Existing law, the Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation Act,
which establishes the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal
Insulation, requires that all mattresses manufactured for sale in
this state and all seating furniture sold or offered for sale for use
in this state be fire retardant, as defined. Existing law requires
that all other bedding products that the bureau determines to
contribute to mattress bedding fires to comply with specified
regulations adopted by the bureau.
   This bill would exempt juvenile furniture, as defined, from those
requirements, and would authorize the bureau to modify that exemption
if it determines that any juvenile products pose a serious fire
hazard.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19161.4 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   19161.4.  (a) The requirements of Section 19161 and the
regulations adopted thereunder shall not apply to juvenile products.
For purposes of this section, "juvenile products" means any item of
bedding or seating furniture with a primary intended use for children
six years of age or younger. The term includes, but is not limited
to, portable cribs, car seats, strollers, bassinets, infant carriers,
walkers, backpack child carriers, infant and toddler pillows, and
toddler chairs.
   (b) The bureau may, by regulation, modify the exemption provided
under this section if the bureau determines that any juvenile
products pose a serious fire hazard.