Alex Gate Safety Act of 2025

This bill tells the Consumer Product Safety Commission to set safety rules for certain gates, like large sliding or swinging gates you see at driveways, businesses, and schools. Within one year of the law taking effect, these gates must meet widely used safety standards to help prevent gates from falling, trapping, or crushing people. If a gate has a motor or opener, it must also meet motorized gate safety standards. Updated industry safety standards will automatically take effect later on unless the Commission decides they don’t improve safety. These rules will have the force of a federal safety rule once issued .

Within two years, the Commission must run a national education campaign about gate dangers and low-cost ways to prevent injuries. The campaign must include materials for manufacturers, contractors, retailers, service companies, consumers, building officials, and school districts, and it must cover safe design, installation, inspection, and maintenance. The Commission must report to Congress on what it did within three years .

• Who is affected: makers and installers of gates; retailers and service companies; building officials; schools; property owners and gate users .
• What changes: new federal safety standards for covered gates; ongoing adoption of improved safety standards; nationwide safety education and best-practice guidance .
• When: standards due within 1 year; public education campaign by 2 years; report due by 3 years after the law takes effect .