2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-00761HB0026
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0026
Highway safety-child restraints.
Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military
Affairs Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring rear-facing
2 child safety restraint systems for children younger than
3 two (2) years old or under the weight or height limits
4 specified for the particular child safety restraint system;
5 clarifying the placement of child safety restraint systems
6 in front of active airbags; and providing for an effective
7 date.
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11W.S. 31-5-1303(a) is amended to read:
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15 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-00762HB00261 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of
2 this section, no person shall operate a passenger vehicle
3 in this state unless each child who is a passenger in that
4 vehicle and who has not reached
5 is properly secured in a child safety
6 restraint system in a seat of the vehicle other than the
7 front seat, except if the vehicle is only equipped with one
8 (1) row of seats, or if all safety belts in the rows of
9 seats behind the front seat are in use by other child
10 passengers in the vehicle, child may be properly
11 secured in a child safety restraint system in the front
12 passenger seat of the vehicle, except that a rear-facing
13 shall not be
14 placed in front of an active airbag.
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21. This act is effective July 1, 2025
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