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HB 1908 Child restraint devices; raises booster seat age, prohibits certain in front seat.
Introduced by: David B. Albo | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Child restraint devices. Increases the age that children must be secured in a child restraint device from five to eight and requires that rear-facing child restraint devices for infants from birth to one year shall be secured only in the back seat of motor vehicles manufactured after January 1, 1968. The bill also removes the exemption from required child restraint device use for the rear cargo area of vehicles other than pickup trucks and increases the age from less than six years old to eight years old for the permitted use of standard seat belt equipment for certain children.
FULL TEXT
- 01/04/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 076348204 pdf
- 01/31/07 House: Committee substitute printed 079407204-H1 pdf
- 03/08/07 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1908ER) pdf
- 03/27/07 House: Governor's substitute printed 079467129-H2 pdf
- 04/12/07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0935) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/04/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 076348204
- 01/04/07 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/12/07 House: Assigned Transportation sub: #3 (Carrico)
- 01/30/07 House: Reported from Transportation with substitute (17-Y 4-N)
- 01/31/07 House: Committee substitute printed 079407204-H1
- 02/01/07 House: Read first time
- 02/02/07 House: Read second time
- 02/02/07 House: Committee substitute agreed to 079407204-H1
- 02/02/07 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/02/07 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute (55-Y 41-N) HB1908H1
- 02/02/07 House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT (55-Y 41-N)
- 02/03/07 House: Read third time and passed House (56-Y 42-N)
- 02/03/07 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (56-Y 42-N)
- 02/03/07 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/05/07 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/07 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/15/07 Senate: Reported from Transportation with amendments (14-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/07 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/07 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/07 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/20/07 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/20/07 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/20/07 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (34-Y 6-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: VOTE: (34-Y 6-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (30-Y 10-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: VOTE: (30-Y 10-N)
- 02/21/07 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/07 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (55-Y 41-N)
- 02/22/07 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (55-Y 41-N)
- 03/08/07 House: Enrolled
- 03/08/07 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1908ER)
- 03/08/07 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/07 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/07 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 03/27/07 House: Governor's substitute printed 079467129-H2
- 04/03/07 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/04/07 House: House rejected Governor's recommendation (22-Y 78-N)
- 04/04/07 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (22-Y 78-N)
- 04/04/07 House: Communicated to Governor
- 04/10/07 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 935 (effective 7/1/07)
- 04/12/07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0935)