Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvements Act of 1976

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvements Act - Authorizes to be appropriated to the Consumer Products Safety Commission $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Declares that no officer or agency of the United States other than the Civil Service Commission shall have any authority to require the Chairman or the Commission to obtain approval of the employment or promotion of any individual by the Commission. Declares that no individual may be required to advocate any program or position espoused by the executive branch of the Federal Government as a prerequisite to employment or promotion by the Commission. Declares that the Congress shall exercise continuing oversight over the activities of the Commission. Empowers duly authorized committees of the Congress to conduct inquiries into the activities of the Commission. Requires every product liability insurer and independent testing laboratory which discovers that a consumer product distributed in commerce fails to comply with an applicable consumer product safety rule, or contains a defect which could create a substantial product hazard, to notify the manufacturer of such product of such a discove…