Congress moves to strip federal safety rules from gasoline containers
H.R. 1345 — Gas Can Freedom Act of 2025 · Filed by Chip Roy (R-TX) · 10 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill repeals two federal safety laws—the Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2020 and the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act—and bars the Consumer Product Safety Commission from issuing regulations requiring flame-mitigation devices or child-resistant closures on portable gasoline containers. Ordinary citizens, especially children and burn-injury victims, lose federal safety standards that were designed to prevent accidental gasoline fires and poisonings.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is the wholesale repeal of two consumer-protection statutes and a regulatory prohibition—a straightforward deregulation of portable fuel container safety. The 'Freedom Act' framing is political messaging, but the functional character is removal of safety guardrails.
What the text implies
- Repeal of the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act eliminates the only federal standard specifically designed to prevent child poisoning from gasoline ingestion—a leading cause of pediatric chemical poisoning. No state-level replacement is guaranteed.
- The prohibition on flame-mitigation devices removes a standard that reduces the risk of catastrophic fires when portable fuel containers are involved in vehicle crashes or household accidents. Insurance and liability costs may shift to consumers and emergency responders.
- CPSC is barred not only from enforcing the repealed acts but from issuing ANY regulation requiring flame mitigation or child resistance on portable gasoline containers—a permanent legislative veto on future rulemaking, even if injury data changes.
- Portable fuel container manufacturers may face reduced liability exposure and lower compliance costs, but consumers lose the ability to rely on a federal safety floor when purchasing containers.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Ordinary people—particularly children and households storing gasoline—lose federal safety protections against burn injuries and accidental poisoning. The bill eliminates standards designed to prevent foreseeable, serious harms and bars the regulatory agency from replacing them, shifting injury risk entirely to consumers and families.
Who stands to gain
- portable fuel container manufacturers
- gasoline retailers and distributors
Named in the bill
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2020, Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act
Where it stands
10 cosponsors: 10 Republicans.
- Feb 13, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 13, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (742 characters) on Aug 17, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-10-20.
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