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The Commission received two requests, one from consumer advocate Gloria Black, the Consumer Federation of America, and 60 other organizations, and the second from Public Citizen, asking that the Commission initiate proceedings under section 8 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) to determine whether adult portable bed rails pose an unreasonable risk of injury and initiate related rulemaking under section 9 of the CPSA. The Commission is considering them as a single petition. After reviewing a briefing package from staff in 2014, the Commission voted to defer the petition. The Commission subsequently directed staff to assess the progress of the voluntary standard development and to make a recommendation on whether the Commission should grant the petition and initiate rulemaking. The new voluntary standard was published in August 2017. Staff evaluated the new voluntary standard and performed product testing to assess conformance, and provided the Commission with a briefing package in July 2020, with the recommendation to continue deferring the petition. On March 9, 2022, staff submitted to the Commission a briefing package, supplementing the 2020 briefing package, and recommending that the Commission grant the petition. On March 15, 2022, the Commission voted to grant the petition and directed staff to draft a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). On September 21, 2022, staff submitted an NPRM briefing package to the Commission.