Report Title:

Seat Belt Exemption; Repeal

Description:

Requires persons under the age of 18 seated in the back seat to be restrained. (SB2003 HD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2003

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO passenger restraint devices.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 291-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) [This section shall not apply if the number of persons in a vehicle exceeds the greater of the following:

(1) The number of seat belt assemblies available in the vehicle; or

(2) The number of seat belt assemblies originally installed in the vehicle;

provided that all] All available seat belt assemblies [are being] shall be used to restrain a passenger, and [those children not] every person under the age of eighteen in the back seat of the motor vehicle shall be restrained by an approved child passenger restraint system or a seat belt assembly [are in the back seat of the motor vehicle.] in accordance with subsection (a)."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.