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HB0071 • 2011

Seat belts-evidence in civil actions.

AN ACT relating to the regulation of traffic on highways and civil actions; allowing a person's failure to wear a safety belt to be admissible evidence in civil actions; and providing for an effective date.

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Stubson
Last action
2011-02-28
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2011-02-28 House

    H Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 4-3(c)

  2. 2011-01-17 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H01; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2011-01-11 House

    H Received for Introduction

  4. 2011-01-05 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0267

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0071

Seat belts-evidence in civil actions.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Stubson, Berger, Brown, Illoway and Roscoe and Senator(s) Case and Dockstader

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the regulation of traffic on highways and civil actions; allowing a person's failure to wear a safety belt to be admissible evidence in civil actions; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 31
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5
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1402(f) is amended to read:

31
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1402.

Safety belts required to be used; exceptions; reduction in fine.

(f)

Evidence of a person's failure to wear a safety belt as required by this act shall not be admissible in any civil action
in this state to prove or disprove the issue of comparative fault under W.S. 1
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1
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109, but may be introduced into evidence in mitigation of damages, provided the party introducing the evidence has plead such failure to wear a safety belt as an affirmative defense. Each party seeking to offer evidence of a failure to wear a safety belt has the burden of proving that a safety belt was not in use, that use of a safety belt would have reduced injuries and the extent to which use of a safety belt would have reduced injuries
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Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2011.

(END)

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