Chief Chris Eddy’s Law

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9266 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9266

    To require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations
   relating to the transportation of hazardous materials to require
placards to be placed on all refrigerated shipping containers, and for
                            other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2026

Mr. Carter of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL

    To require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations
   relating to the transportation of hazardous materials to require
placards to be placed on all refrigerated shipping containers, and for
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Chief Chris Eddy's Law''.

SEC. 2. REGULATIONS FOR REFRIGERATED SHIPPING CONTAINERS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation shall issue or
revise, as appropriate, regulations relating to the transportation of
hazardous materials to require the placarding of all refrigerated
containers to communicate to emergency responders the potential of
pressurization from such containers.
    (b) Placarding Required Regardless of Cargo.--The regulations
issued or revised under this section shall require the placarding
described in subsection (a) on all refrigerated containers regardless
of the cargo such container is transporting.
    (c) Refrigerated Container Defined.--In this section, the term
``refrigerated container'' means a container that is capable of
refrigeration and used for transportation in intrastate, interstate,
and foreign commerce.

SEC. 3. STUDY.

    The Secretary shall conduct a study to assess whether refrigerants
should be formally recognized as a distinct hazard category and include
in such study an assessment of--
            (1) how the creation of a distinct hazard category for
        refrigerants would interact with other hazardous material
        classifications; and
            (2) the broader regulatory impacts of creating such a
        category.
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