Bill Text: NY S00300 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity that sells new motor vehicle child restraint systems to also sell motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-23 - SUBSTITUTED BY A381A [S00300 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00300-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         300--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of new
          motor vehicle child restraint systems

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-iii to read as follows:
     3    § 399-iii. Child restraint alarm.  1. As used in this section:
     4    (a)  "Child  restraint system" shall mean any device, used in conjunc-
     5  tion with safety belts, designed for use in a motor vehicle to restrain,
     6  seat, or position children and which meets the applicable Federal  Motor
     7  Vehicle Safety Standards set forth in 49 C.F.R.  571.213.
     8    (b) "Child restraint alarm" shall mean any device that attaches to the
     9  child  restraint  system or conjoined safety belt that alerts the driver
    10  when he or she has exited the vehicle without unbuckling the child  from
    11  the  child  restraint system. This alarm may connect with a smart device
    12  and send either text alerts, e-mails or sound an audible alarm.
    13    2. A person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability  compa-
    14  ny,  corporation,  or  other  entity  may  sell or offer to sell a child
    15  restraint system if the retailer:
    16    (a) maintains in stock and prominently displays within the store,  the
    17  child  restraint  alarms  for  sale  that are compatible with such child
    18  restraint systems; and
    19    (b) posts a notice, in a conspicuous location which may be easily seen
    20  or reached by customers, in a legible format, which states: "Heat stroke
    21  is the leading cause of non-car crash vehicular death in children  under

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02110-05-1
        S. 300--A                           2

     1  the  age  of 15. Child restraint alarms, when used properly, may help to
     2  prevent vehicular death of children."
     3    3.  Any  person,  firm,  partnership,  association,  limited liability
     4  company, corporation, or other entity that sells or offers to  sell  new
     5  child  restraint  systems  to  a  consumer at retail in violation of the
     6  provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil  penalty  not  to
     7  exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.