Consumer Product Safety Commission accepting comments until July 26 for proposed rules to require SawStop technology on table saws.

Kehoe Custom Wood Designs owner Joe Kehoe testified in May in support of California's Table Saw Safety Act. The bill did not come to a vote before the state senate adjourned.

California's controversial Table Saw Safety Act, which breezed through the Assembly in a 64-4 vote, is dead - for now at least - after the Senate failed to bring the bill up for a vote.

2011 proved to be another economically challenging year for most North American wood products companies, but boring it was not.

Woodworking Network readers chime in about the possibility of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission requiring table saw manufacturers to incorporate the SawStop safety device in their products.