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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.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/07 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 075702162 pdf
- 01/26/07 Senate: Committee substitute printed 079404162-S1 pdf
- 02/14/07 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1060ER) pdf
- 03/13/07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/09/07 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 075702162
- 01/09/07 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/25/07 Senate: Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/07 Senate: Committee substitute printed 079404162-S1
- 01/29/07 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/29/07 Senate: VOTE: (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/07 Senate: Read second time
- 01/30/07 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/30/07 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 079404162-S1
- 01/30/07 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1060S1
- 01/31/07 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 5-N)
- 01/31/07 Senate: VOTE: (33-Y 5-N)
- 01/31/07 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/06/07 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/07 House: Read first time
- 02/06/07 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/08/07 House: Reported from Transportation (17-Y 5-N)
- 02/09/07 House: Read second time
- 02/12/07 House: Read third time
- 02/12/07 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/12/07 House: Passed House (53-Y 47-N)
- 02/12/07 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (53-Y 47-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/14/07 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1060ER)
- 02/14/07 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/14/07 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/07 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 91 (effective 7/1/07)
- 03/13/07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091)