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SB 1060 Child restraint devices; raises booster seat age, prohibits certain in front seat.

Introduced by: John C. Watkins | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (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.


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