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HB0026 • 2025

Highway safety-child restraints.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring rear-facing child safety restraint systems for children younger than two (2) years old or under the weight or height limits specified for the particular child safety restraint system; clarifying the placement of child safety restraint systems in front of active airbags; and providing for an effective date.

Children Parental Rights
Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor
Transportation
Last action
2025-02-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill did not pass in the session, so its rules are not currently enforceable.

Highway Safety - Child Restraints

The bill requires children under two years old or within the weight and height limits specified by their car seat manufacturer to use rear-facing child safety seats in vehicles, and clarifies rules about placing these seats near airbags.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires children younger than two years old or who meet specific weight and height requirements for their car seat to ride in a rear-facing child safety restraint system.
  • Clarifies that rear-facing child safety restraint systems should not be placed in front of active airbags.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Parents or guardians who transport children under two years old or within specific weight and height limits in vehicles.

Terms To Know

Rear-facing child safety restraint system
A car seat designed to face the back of the vehicle, providing extra protection for young children in case of a crash.
Active airbag
An airbag that is ready to deploy during a collision and can cause injury if a child's safety seat is placed too close to it.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass in the session, so its rules are not currently enforceable.
  • It does not specify penalties for non-compliance with the new requirements.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-03 House

    H Did not Consider for Introduction

  2. 2025-01-02 House

    H Received for Introduction

  3. 2024-12-10 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
25LSO-0076
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0076
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0026

Highway safety-child restraints.

Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring rear-facing child safety restraint systems for children younger than two (2) years old or under the weight or height limits specified for the particular child safety restraint system; clarifying the placement of child safety restraint systems in front of active airbags; 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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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
nine (9) years of age
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
a
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.
The child safety restraint system required by this subsection shall be rear
‑
facing until the child reaches either the age of two (2) or the maximum weight or height limit specified by the manufacturer of the child safety restraint system for rear-facing installation.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
.

(END)

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