96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0964

 

Introduced 2/10/2009, by Rep. Careen M Gordon

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
430 ILCS 125/17

    Amends the Children's Product Safety Act. Provides that a recall or warning notice may be posted in an electronic format. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Children's Product Safety Act is amended by
5 changing Section 17 as follows:
 
6     (430 ILCS 125/17)
7     Sec. 17. Product recalls.
8     (a) If a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or
9 distributor of children's products has placed into the stream
10 of commerce in Illinois a children's product for which a recall
11 or warning has subsequently been issued by one of those
12 entities or by an agency of the federal government, then the
13 manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or distributor must
14 initiate the following steps within 24 hours after issuing or
15 receiving the recall or warning:
16         (1) Contact all of its commercial customers, other than
17     end consumers, to whom it sold, leased, sublet, or
18     transferred that particular children's product in
19     Illinois. This contact must include providing the recall
20     notice or warning and must be made to the person designated
21     by the retailer for that product.
22         (2) If the manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or
23     distributor maintains a web site, the entity must place on

 

 

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1     the home page (or the first entry point) of its web site a
2     link to recall or warning information that contains the
3     specific recall notice or warning that was issued for the
4     product in question. The recall or warning information must
5     include a description of the product, the reason for the
6     recall or warning, a picture of the product, and
7     instructions on how to participate in the recall or
8     warning. The information may include only the product
9     recall information and may not include sales or marketing
10     information on that product or any other product, excluding
11     return and exchange policies. The recall or warning
12     information must allow persons to participate in the recall
13     through the web site of the manufacturer, importer,
14     wholesaler, or distributor.
15         (3) If the manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or
16     distributor sold directly to a non-commercial consumer,
17     and the consumer provided either a shipping address or
18     e-mail address at the time of sale, then the manufacturer,
19     importer, wholesaler, or distributor must send a notice of
20     the recall or warning to the consumer at either address
21     provided. The notice must include a description of the
22     product, the reason for the recall or warning, and
23     instructions on how to participate in the recall or
24     warning. The notice may include only the product recall
25     information and may not include sales or marketing
26     information on that product or any other product, excluding

 

 

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1     return and exchange policies.
2     (b) If a retailer receives notice of a recall or warning
3 regarding a children's product from a manufacturer, importer,
4 wholesaler, or distributor, or, in the case of an involuntary
5 recall, from a federal agency, and if the retailer at any time
6 offered the product for sale in Illinois, then the retailer
7 must do the following:
8         (1) Within 3 business days after receiving the recall
9     or warning from the manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or
10     distributor by a person designated by the retailer, the
11     retailer must remove the children's product from the
12     shelves of its stores or program its registers to ensure
13     that the item cannot be sold.
14         (2) If the product was sold through the retailer's web
15     site, then within 3 business days after receipt of the
16     recall or warning by the person designated by the retailer,
17     the retailer must remove the children's product from the
18     web site or remove the ability of a consumer to purchase
19     the children's product through the web site.
20         (3) If an e-mail or shipping address was provided at
21     the time a children's product, for which a recall or
22     warning was subsequently issued, was purchased on the
23     retailer's web site, the retailer must attempt to contact
24     the purchaser at either address provided with the recall or
25     warning information. The recall or warning information
26     must include a description of the product, the reason for

 

 

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1     the recall or warning, and instructions on how to
2     participate in the recall or warning. The information may
3     include only the product recall information and may not
4     include sales or marketing information on that product or
5     any other product, excluding return and exchange policies.
6     The retailer must comply with this paragraph (3) within 30
7     days after receiving the notice of the recall or warning
8     from a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or distributor.
9         (4) Within 5 business days after receipt of the recall
10     or warning by the person designated by the retailer from a
11     manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, distributor, or from a
12     federal agency in the case of an involuntary recall, the
13     retailer must post in a prominent location in each retail
14     store the recall or warning notice. The posting may be in
15     an electronic format. The This notice must remain posted
16     for 120 days.
17         (5) If the children's product for which a recall or
18     warning was issued was sold on the retailer's web site, the
19     retailer must within 5 business days post on the home page
20     (or the first entry point) of its web site a link to recall
21     or warning information that contains the specific recall
22     notice or warning that was issued for the product in
23     question. The recall or warning information must include a
24     description of the product, the reason for the recall or
25     warning, a picture of the product (if one was provided),
26     and instructions on how to participate in the recall or

 

 

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1     warning. The information may include only the product
2     recall information and may not include sales or marketing
3     information on that product or any other product, excluding
4     return and exchange policies.
5     (c) Within 5 business days after a recalled children's
6 product is placed on the Department of Public Health's
7 comprehensive list maintained under Section 15, a retailer who
8 is not a first seller must comply with subsection (b) of
9 Section 17, except that such a retailer has 5 business days to
10 comply with both subdivision (b)(1) and subdivision (b)(2) of
11 Section 17.
12     (d) A manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or distributor
13 who is also a retailer must comply with both subsection (a) and
14 subsection (b) of Section 17, except that a manufacturer,
15 importer, wholesaler, or distributor who is also a retailer
16 must, within 24 hours after issuing or receiving the recall or
17 warning, post on the home page (or the first entry point) of
18 its web site a link to recall or warning information that
19 contains the specific recall notice or warning that was issued
20 for the product in question.
21 (Source: P.A. 94-11, eff. 6-8-05.)
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23 becoming law.