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2007 SESSION

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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 | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

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.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Child restraint devices; booster seat age; rear facing child restraint devices; civil penalty.  Raises the booster seat age requirement from through age five to through age seven and prohibits any person from securing a child in the front passenger seat with rear facing child restraint device unless the vehicle is not equipped with a passenger side airbag or the airbag has been deactivated. The bill also removes an exception that allows children to ride unrestrained in the rear cargo area of vehicles other than pickup trucks.