HB0124 • 2022

Highway safety-child restraints.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring rear-facing child safety restraint systems for children under the age of two (2); clarifying the placement of child safety restraint systems in front of active airbags; and providing for an effective date.

Children

Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor: Representative Baker
Last action: 2022-02-18
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2022

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about exceptions to the rear-facing car seat requirement, such as when a vehicle has only one row of seating or multiple child passengers in the back.

Highway Safety for Children

The bill requires children under two years old to ride in rear-facing car seats and clarifies rules about placing child safety seats near airbags.

What This Bill Does

Requires that all children younger than two years old must use a rear-facing car seat when riding in a vehicle.

Who It Names or Affects

Parents and caregivers who transport children under two years old in vehicles

Terms To Know

Rear-facing car seat: A type of car seat that positions the child facing the back of the vehicle, recommended for infants and young children.
Active airbag: An airbag in a vehicle that is ready to deploy during an accident.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not considered for introduction.
It does not specify penalties or enforcement measures.
The bill only requires rear-facing car seats for children under two years old, without mentioning exceptions for one-row seating or multiple child passengers.

Bill History

2022-02-18 House
H Did not Consider for Introduction
2022-02-15 House
H Received for Introduction
2022-02-15 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

22LSO-0369
2022
STATE OF WYOMING
22LSO-0369
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0124

Highway safety-child restraints.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Baker, Brown and Burkhart and Senator(s) Pappas

A BILL

for

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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1303(a) is amended to read:

31
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5
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1303.

Child safety restraint system; required use; exception.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, no person shall operate a passenger vehicle in this state unless each child who is a passenger in that vehicle and who has not reached his ninth birthday is properly secured in a child safety restraint system in a seat of the vehicle other than the front seat, except if the vehicle is only equipped with one (1) row of seats, or if all safety belts in the rows of seats behind the front seat are in use by other child passengers in the vehicle, the child may be properly secured in a child safety restraint system in the front passenger seat of the vehicle, except that a
rear
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facing infant seat
child safety restraint system
shall not be placed in front of an active airbag.
For each child who has not reached his second birthday, the child safety restraint system required by this subsection shall be rear
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facing.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2022
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