Vetoed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that exempts Michigan made gas cans from federal regulations.

Highlights:

• Requires the labeling of certain portable fuel containers as made in and for use in Michigan; and to make findings that, under certain circumstances, portable fuel containers have not entered or substantially affected interstate commerce.

• Establishes that a portable fuel container that is manufactured in this state without the inclusion of parts, other than generic or insignificant parts, imported from outside of this state and that remains within this state has not entered into or substantially affected interstate commerce and is not subject to congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce. 

• Establishes that basic materials, such as unmachined and unshaped steel and plastic, are not portable fuel containers and are not subject to congressional authority to regulate portable fuel containers in interstate commerce as if the basic materials were actually portable fuel containers. 

• Requires congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce in basic materials does not include authority to regulate portable fuel containers manufactured in this state from those basic materials.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that exempts Michigan made gas cans from federal regulations.

Highlights:

• Requires the labeling of certain portable fuel containers as made in and for use in Michigan; and to make findings that, under certain circumstances, portable fuel containers have not entered or substantially affected interstate commerce.

• Establishes that a portable fuel container that is manufactured in this state without the inclusion of parts, other than generic or insignificant parts, imported from outside of this state and that remains within this state has not entered into or substantially affected interstate commerce and is not subject to congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce. 

• Establishes that basic materials, such as unmachined and unshaped steel and plastic, are not portable fuel containers and are not subject to congressional authority to regulate portable fuel containers in interstate commerce as if the basic materials were actually portable fuel containers. 

• Requires congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce in basic materials does not include authority to regulate portable fuel containers manufactured in this state from those basic materials.

Full Bill Text