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Committee hears multiple bills on seat belts: primary enforcement, rear-facing car seats and school-bus restraints
Summary
The committee heard testimony on multiple bills to increase passenger safety: primary enforcement of seat-belt laws, rear-facing car-seat rules for young children, and lap-shoulder belts on new large school buses.
The Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security heard testimony on a suite of bills aimed at increasing occupant safety in motor vehicles and on school buses, including primary enforcement of the seat-belt law, a rear-facing car-seat requirement for children under 2, and mandated lap-shoulder belts on newly manufactured large school buses.
Witnesses representing advocacy groups, insurers, health and brain-injury organizations, and federal transportation safety officials urged the committee to act. Christina Hayman of AAA Northeast supported both a rear-facing car-seat law and “primary” seat-belt enforcement. Kelly Buttilieri of the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts…
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