# H.R. 973 (119th): Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act

Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a final consumer product safety rule for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility devices, such as electric bikes and electric scooters. Specifically, the rule must require manufacturers and distributors of such products to comply with the applicable safety standards jointly established by the American National Standards Institute, the Standards Council of Canada, and UL Solutions Inc.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: consumer_protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: product_safety. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: technology_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 103: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure pursues a legitimate prudential good, reducing fire and injury risk from consumer batteries, through a federal safety rule. It also directs a federal agency to adopt a mandate tied to external standards bodies, which raises ordinary regulatory-process concerns but no direct advancement of moral harm is named. Under the framework this is a combination of ordinary goods with real but non-decisive concerns, so mixed is the prudent classification.
Theological note: Scripture grounds public concern for the safety of neighbors and honest dealing in commerce, so product-safety rules relate to love of neighbor and the duty to avoid harm to others. Whether this specific mandate is wise or proportionate is a prudential question about federal regulatory design and is not a clear moral verdict on the metadata provided.

## Recorded votes

Roll 103: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 365 · Nay 42 · Other 25.

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