|
2013 -- S 0008 | |
|
======= | |
|
LC00249 | |
|
======= | |
|
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
|
| |
|
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
|
| |
|
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2013 | |
|
| |
|
____________ | |
|
| |
|
A N A C T | |
|
RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW - CHILDREN'S WIRELESS PROTECTION ACT | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Introduced By: Senator V. Susan Sosnowski | |
|
Date Introduced: January 16, 2013 | |
|
Referred To: Senate Corporations | |
|
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
|
1-1 |
SECTION 1. Title 6 of the General Laws entitled "COMMERCIAL LAW - GENERAL |
|
1-2 |
REGULATORY PROVISIONS" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following chapter: |
|
1-3 |
CHAPTER 54 |
|
1-4 |
CHILDREN'S WIRELESS PROTECTION ACT |
|
1-5 |
6-54-1. Short title. -- This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Children's |
|
1-6 |
Wireless Protection Act". |
|
1-7 |
6-54-2. Definitions. -- As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, a |
|
1-8 |
"cellular telephone" means any device used to access a wireless telephone service. |
|
1-9 |
6-54-3. Warning label required. -- (a) A manufacturer of cellular telephones may not |
|
1-10 |
sell at retail in this state, to a retailer in this state, for use in this state a cellular telephone unless |
|
1-11 |
the device and its packaging bear a warning label that is legible, nonremovable, is located in a |
|
1-12 |
prominent place that is conspicuous and not obscured by other written matter, contrasts with the |
|
1-13 |
type, layout and color of the other printed matter, includes a color graphic symbol, appears on |
|
1-14 |
both the front and back of the packaging and contains the following statement: |
|
1-15 |
“WARNING, THIS DEVICE EMITS ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, |
|
1-16 |
EXPOSURE TO WHICH MAY CAUSE BRAIN CANCER. USERS, ESPECIALLY |
|
1-17 |
CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN, SHOULD KEEP THIS DEVICE AWAY FROM |
|
1-18 |
THE HEAD AND BODY.? |
|
1-19 |
(b) The requirements of this subsection may not result in a cost to the retailer or |
|
1-20 |
distributor of cellular telephones. |
|
2-1 |
6-54-4. Rulemaking. -- The department of health shall promulgate regulations to |
|
2-2 |
implement this chapter, including, but not limited to, regulations establishing requirements for |
|
2-3 |
uniform warning labels for cellular telephones and cellular telephone packaging under this |
|
2-4 |
chapter and shall contain a permanent nonremovable advisory for risk, in black type, except for |
|
2-5 |
the word “warning,? which must be large and in red, capital letters, all on a field in white. |
|
2-6 |
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2014. |
|
| |
|
======= | |
|
LC00249 | |
|
======= | |
|
EXPLANATION | |
|
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
|
OF | |
|
A N A C T | |
|
RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW - CHILDREN'S WIRELESS PROTECTION ACT | |
|
*** | |
|
3-1 |
This act would require all cellular telephones sold for use in Rhode Island to have affixed |
|
3-2 |
to the device and its packaging a prominent and conspicuous warning label that states the |
|
3-3 |
telephone emits electromagnetic radiation which may cause brain cancer specially to children and |
|
3-4 |
pregnant women users. |
|
3-5 |
This act would take effect January 1, 2014. |
|
| |
|
======= | |
|
LC00249 | |
|
======= |