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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2083. Congressional veto of consumer product safety rules
(a) Transmission to Congress
The Commission shall transmit to the Secretary of the Senate and
the Clerk of the House of Representatives a copy of any consumer
product safety rule promulgated by the Commission under section
2058 of this title.
(b) Disapproval by concurrent resolution
Any rule specified in subsection (a) of this section shall not
take effect if -
(1) within the 90 calendar days of continuous session of the
Congress which occur after the date of the promulgation of such
rule, both Houses of the Congress adopt a concurrent resolution,
the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows
(with the blank spaces appropriately filled): "That the Congress
disapproves the consumer product safety rule which was
promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission with
respect to and which was transmitted to the Congress
on and disapproves the rule for the following reasons:
."; or
(2) within the 60 calendar days of continuous session of the
Congress which occur after the date of the promulgation of such
rule, one House of the Congress adopts such concurrent resolution
and transmits such resolution to the other House and such
resolution is not disapproved by such other House within the 30
calendar days of continuous session of the Congress which occur
after the date of such transmittal.
(c) Presumptions from Congressional action or inaction
Congressional inaction on, or rejection of, a concurrent
resolution of disapproval under this section shall not be construed
as an expression of approval of the rule involved, and shall not be
construed to create any presumption of validity with respect to
such rule.
(d) Continuous session of Congress
For purposes of this section -
(1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of
the Congress sine die; and
(2) the days on which either House is not in session because of
an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are excluded
in the computation of the periods of continuous session of the
Congress specified in subsection (b) of this section.
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