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House pauses seat-belt clarification bill after prosecutors, law-enforcement concerns
Summary
Sponsor framed HB 8 as a technical clarification to allow secondary seat-belt citations for people 19 and older when a vehicle is detained; opponents pressed concerns that the change could allow multiple adult passengers to be separately cited and moved to 'circle' the bill for further work.
Representative Moss introduced House Bill 8, a statutory-clarification bill intended to specify that a driver or passenger 19 years of age or older may be cited for a seat-belt violation as a secondary action when a vehicle has been detained for a suspected violation. Moss described the proposal as a simple clarification that does not change existing…
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