HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1690
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to child passenger restraint systems.

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 (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person operating a motor vehicle on a public highway in the State shall transport a child under eight years of age except under the following circumstances:

(1) If the child is [under] two years of age or younger, the person operating the motor vehicle shall ensure that the child is properly restrained in a rear-facing child passenger restraint system that meets federal motor vehicle safety standards at the time of its manufacture;

(2) If the child is more than two years of age but less than four years of age, the person operating the motor vehicle shall ensure that the child is properly restrained in a child passenger restraint system that meets federal motor vehicle safety standards at the time of its manufacture; or

[(2)] (3) If the child is four years of age or older but less than eight years of age, the person operating the motor vehicle shall ensure that the child is properly restrained in a child safety seat or booster seat that meets federal motor vehicle safety standards at the time of its manufacture; except as provided in paragraph [(3);] (4); and

[(3)] (4) If the child is four years of age or older but less than eight years of age, the person operating the motor vehicle shall be exempt from properly restraining the child in a child safety seat or booster seat that meets federal motor vehicle safety standards at the time of manufacture if the child is restrained by a seat belt assembly and:

(A) Over four feet and nine inches in height; or

(B) Over forty pounds and traveling in a motor vehicle equipped only with lap belts, without shoulder straps, in the back seat."

SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Motor Vehicles; Child Safety; Child Passenger Restraint Systems; Rear-Facing Seats

Description:

Requires motor vehicle operators to ensure that children 2 years of age or younger are properly restrained in rear-facing child passenger restraint systems.

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