HB0125 • 2020

Safety belts.

AN ACT relating to safety belt usage; repealing the prohibition on halting a motor vehicle solely for a safety belt violation; specifying a driver's responsibility to require passengers under sixteen years of age to wear a safety belt; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Representative Burkhart
Last action: 2020-02-14
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2020

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text was not provided, so some details could not be verified.

Safety Belts for Young Passengers

The bill changes the law to require drivers to ensure that passengers under sixteen years old wear safety belts and removes a rule against stopping cars just for not wearing seatbelts.

What This Bill Does

Changes the law so that drivers must make sure passengers under age sixteen are wearing safety belts when driving on public roads.

Who It Names or Affects

Drivers who have passengers under sixteen years old in their cars
Passengers under sixteen years old

Terms To Know

Safety belt: A device used to keep a person secure and safe inside a vehicle during movement.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass in the session it was introduced.
It does not specify what happens if a driver doesn't follow this rule about young passengers.

Bill History

2020-02-14 House
H Did not Consider for Introduction Vote
2020-02-07 House
H Received for Introduction
2020-02-07 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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20LSO-0504
2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0504
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0125

Safety belts.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Burkhart, Blake and Brown and Senator(s) Pappas and Von Flatern

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to safety belt usage; repealing the prohibition on halting a motor vehicle solely for a safety belt violation; specifying a driver's responsibility to require passengers under sixteen years of age to wear a safety belt; 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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1402(a) is amended to read:

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1402.

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

(a)

Each driver and passenger of a motor vehicle operated in this state shall wear, and each driver of a motor vehicle shall require that a passenger under
twelve (12)
sixteen (16)
years of age shall wear, a properly adjusted and fastened safety belt when the motor vehicle is in motion on public streets and highways.

Section 2.

W.S. 31
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1402(d) is repealed.

Section 3.

This act is effective July 1, 2020
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