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Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeJanuary 26, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 164
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
This bill relates to the use of child restraint devices by certain children traveling in motor vehicles, including child restraint systems, safety belts, and safety harnesses. Current law requires a child under one year of age and weighing less than pounds who is being transported in a motor vehicle subject to registration, except a school bus or motorcycle, to be secured during transit in a rear-facing child restraint system that is used in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. _____ to a child under three years of age and weighing less than pounds.
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Current law also requires a child under six years of age, who is not subject to the above requirement, and who is being transported in a motor vehicle subject to registration, except a school bus or motorcycle, to be secured during transit by a child restraint system that is used in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. The bill extends this requirement to children under eight years of age. Accordingly, the bill requires a child at least eight years of age (instead of six) but under years of age who is being transported in a motor vehicle subject to registration, except a school bus or motorcycle, to be secured during transit by a child restraint system that is used in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions or by an approved safety belt or safety harness. The bill strikes a provision that exempts children occupying the back seat of a motor vehicle from having to be secured during transit by a child restraint system, safety belt, or safety harness if no safety belt is available because all safety belts are being used by other occupants or cannot be used due to the use of a child restraint system in the seating position for which a belt is provided.446 is punishable by a scheduled fine of $135.555.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 11, 2023. On January 19, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. [].
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§321.446
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- HF 2344 Relating to the use of child restraint devices by certain children traveling in motor vehi…91st General Assembly · Approved by committeeNearly identical
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