H.R. 973 · 119th Congress · Commerce
Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Apr 28, 2025
Roll call ↗365
42
Passed the House.
Passed the House on April 28, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate
- IntroducedFeb 4, 2025
- CommitteeApr 24, 2025
- Passed HouseApr 28, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 23
- 17 Democrats, 6 Republicans
- House committee
- Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 17
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill orders the Consumer Product Safety Commission to turn three industry battery-safety standards into binding federal rules.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, April 28, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill orders the Consumer Product Safety Commission to turn three industry battery-safety standards into binding federal rules. Within 180 days of enactment, the Commission must adopt UL 2271, UL 2849, and UL 2272 as mandatory consumer product safety standards. Those standards cover the lithium-ion batteries and electrical systems in e-bikes, light electric vehicles, and personal e-mobility devices. The rules apply only to consumer products. When the standards-writing organization revises a standard later, the revision automatically becomes federal law 180 days after notice, unless the Commission rules within 90 days that the change does not improve safety. Within five years, the Commission must report to Congress on fires, explosions, and other hazards from these batteries.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 17 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 79 quarterly reports filed by 6 lobbying firms and by 13 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
4 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 389, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Energizer Holdings, Inc.; Safe Kids Worldwide; International Association of Fire Chiefs; Congressional Fire Services Institute; Uber Technologies, Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 12 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.