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

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 official source material does not provide a detailed summary of the bill's content beyond its title and amendments to specific sections, so some parts of the candidate explanation could not be verified in detail.

Highway Safety Rules for Child Car Seats

The bill requires children younger than two years old or under specific weight and height limits to use rear-facing car seats, clarifies rules about placing child safety seats in front of airbags, and sets an effective date.

What This Bill Does

Requires children who are less than two years old or meet the manufacturer's weight and height requirements for rear-facing car seats to ride in a rear-facing seat.
Clarifies that rear-facing infant seats must not be placed in front of active airbags.

Who It Names or Affects

Parents and caregivers who transport children under the age of two or within specific weight and height limits.
Drivers transporting young children in vehicles with airbags.

Terms To Know

Rear-facing child safety restraint system: A car seat designed to face the rear of the vehicle, which is safer for very young or small children.
Active airbag: An airbag that can deploy during a crash to protect passengers.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not considered for introduction.
It does not specify penalties or enforcement details.

Bill History

2025-02-03 House
H Did not Consider for Introduction
2025-01-02 House
H Received for Introduction
2024-12-10 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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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

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
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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
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(END)

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