To ensure that certain short-term rentals are equipped with a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide detector, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3918 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3918

  To ensure that certain short-term rentals are equipped with a smoke 
    detector and a carbon monoxide detector, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2025

 Mr. Keating introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that certain short-term rentals are equipped with a smoke 
    detector and a carbon monoxide detector, 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. SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS REQUIRED.

    (a) Requirement.--No person may rent or offer for rent, or 
facilitate the rental of, a short-term rental unless such short-term 
rental is equipped with a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide 
detector.
    (b) Regulations.--The Federal Trade Commission may promulgate, in 
accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code, such 
regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.
    (c) Enforcement by Federal Trade Commission.--
            (1) Unfair or deceptive acts or practices.--A violation of 
        this section or a regulation promulgated under this section 
        shall be treated as a violation of a regulation under section 
        18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 
        57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices.
            (2) Powers of commission.--The Federal Trade Commission 
        shall enforce this section and the regulations promulgated 
        under this section in the same manner, by the same means, and 
        with the same jurisdiction, powers, and duties as though all 
        applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission 
        Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated into and made a 
        part of this section. Any person who violates this section or a 
        regulation promulgated under this section shall be subject to 
        the penalties and entitled to the privileges and immunities 
        provided in the Federal Trade Commission Act.
    (d) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect on the date 
that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered services.--The term ``covered services''--
                    (A) means the temporary provision of a room, 
                building, or other lodging facility; and
                    (B) does not include the provision of a meeting 
                room, banquet services, or catering services.
            (2) Short-term rental.--The term ``short-term rental'' 
        means a property, including a single-family dwelling or a unit 
        in a condominium, cooperative, or time-share, that provides 
        covered services (either with respect to the entire property or 
        a part of the property)--
                    (A) to the general public;
                    (B) in exchange for a fee;
                    (C) for periods shorter than 30 consecutive days; 
                and
                    (D) promoted, advertised, or marketed in interstate 
                commerce or sold in interstate commerce.
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