Safe SPEEDS Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Safe SPEEDS Act requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue, within one year, a final consumer product safety standard for the uniform classification and labeling of low-speed electric bicycles and other off-road electric devices manufactured, imported, or offered for sale in the United States. Before issuing the standard, CPSC must analyze recent crash, injury, and fatality data, evaluate federal, state, local, industry, and international classification and labeling rules, and consult manufacturers, importers, sellers, product safety experts, consumer and transportation safety advocates, NHTSA, and other appropriate entities.
The standard must define classifications, set minimum age recommendations for each classification, require permanent visible labels showing classification, motor power, motor-only maximum speed, age recommendation, and off-road or motor-vehicle-safety information for covered off-road devices. It must prohibit selling or displaying products as low-speed electric bicycles when they do not meet the definition, can be configured beyond allowed speed or motor power, or are off-road devices without operable pedals. CPSC must conduct recurring crash, injury, and fatality studies, report and publish findings, provide grants to relevant entities from fiscal years 2027 through 2031, and develop a public training module for device identification, classification, and data reporting.
Who Benefits and How
Consumers using e-bikes and off-road electric devices benefit from clearer labels, age recommendations, and product classifications. Parents and youth safety advocates benefit from visible age guidance and better injury data. Law enforcement, emergency medical services, state, local, Tribal, and Native Hawaiian organizations benefit from grants and training to improve crash reporting and public education. Product safety researchers benefit from standardized data on device type, user age, crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
E-bike and off-road electric device manufacturers, importers, and sellers must comply with classification, label, design, and sales restrictions. CPSC staff must write the standard, run studies, consult stakeholders, publish reports, award grants, and build training. Retailers must stop selling devices mislabeled as low-speed electric bicycles or designed for prohibited speed or power modifications. Grant recipients must collect data, train personnel, and implement protocols or public education initiatives.
Key Provisions
- Requires CPSC to issue a final classification and labeling safety standard within one year.
- Requires analysis of five years of crash, injury, and fatality data disaggregated by user age and device type.
- Requires labels showing classification, motor power, motor-only maximum speed, age recommendation, and off-road status where applicable.
- Prohibits sale or display of products mislabeled as low-speed electric bicycles or designed for prohibited speed or power modification.
- Requires recurring crash, injury, and fatality studies plus reports to Congress and public posting.
- Authorizes grants for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 for data collection, enforcement support, public education, and safety initiatives.
- Authorizes $2.5 million per fiscal year for the grant program.
- Requires a public training module on identification, classification, and data reporting.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a consumer product safety standard for low-speed electric bicycles and other off-road electric devices, including classifications, age recommendations, labels, sales prohibitions, crash-data studies, grants, and training.
Key Policy Areas
Consumer Product Safety, Electric Bicycles, Micromobility, Injury Data, Public Safety Grants
Primary Purpose
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a consumer product safety standard for low-speed electric bicycles and other off-road electric devices, including classifications, age recommendations, labels, sales prohibitions, crash-data studies, grants, and training.
Policy Domains
Sections 1 and 2 CPSC classification and labeling standard for e-bikes and off-road electric devices
Identified Gains
- Low-speed electric bicycle consumers
- Parents of youth e-bike riders
- Consumer safety advocacy groups
- Emergency medical service agencies
- State traffic safety agencies
- Product safety researchers
Identified Costs
- E-bike manufacturers
- Off-road electric device importers
- Micromobility retailers
- Consumer Product Safety Commission rulemaking staff
- Grant recipients collecting crash data
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Mr. Min (for himself, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Huffman) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
E-bike manufacturers, Low-speed electric bicycle consumers, Off-road electric device importers
Positive-direction: Low-speed electric bicycle consumers
Negative-direction: E-bike manufacturers, Off-road electric device importers
Consumer Product Safety Commission rulemaking staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "commission"
- → Consumer Product Safety Commission
- "manufacturer"
- → Manufacturer, importer, or seller of low-speed electric bicycles or other off-road electric devices
- "relevant_entity"
- → Law enforcement, emergency service, state, local, Tribal, or Native Hawaiian entity eligible for grants
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The term has the meaning given in section 38 of the Consumer Product Safety Act.
A covered electrically powered off-road consumer product with fewer than four wheels, straddled seat or saddle, and handlebars, or another product determined by CPSC.
Law enforcement, emergency service, state, local, Tribal, or Native Hawaiian organizations eligible for grant support.
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