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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[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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