Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act

This bill, introduced in 2001, sought to reduce accidental fire injuries by requiring portable gasoline containers to be equipped with child-resistant caps. It proposed changing federal law to classify these containers as "packages" under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act, which would have given the Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to mandate safety closures.

For the average citizen, this would have meant that any new gas can purchased at a retail store would be designed with a locking mechanism or safety cap to prevent young children from opening it and spilling fuel. While this specific version of the bill did not become law, its core requirements were eventually enacted in 2008 through a later version of the legislation, making child-resistant caps a standard safety feature on all portable gas containers sold today.