SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1412
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Posey moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 1. Short title.--This act may be cited as the
18 "Child Safety Booster Seat Act of 2001."
19 Section 2. Effective January 1, 2002, paragraph (a) of
20 subsection (1) of section 316.613, Florida Statutes, is
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22 316.613 Child restraint requirements.--
23 (1)(a) Every operator of a motor vehicle as defined
24 herein, while transporting a child in a motor vehicle operated
25 on the roadways, streets, or highways of this state, shall, if
26 the child is 8 5 years of age or younger and is less than 4
27 feet 9 inches in height, provide for protection of the child
28 by properly using a crash-tested, federally approved child
29 restraint device that is appropriate for the height and weight
30 of the child. A crash-tested, federally approved child
31 restraint device is a vehicle manufacturer's integrated child
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1 seat, a separate child safety seat, or a child booster seat
2 that displays the child weight and height specifications for
3 the seat on the attached manufacturer's label as required by
4 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards FMVSS213. Such child
5 restraint device must comply with standards of the United
6 State Department of Transportation and should be secured in
7 the vehicle in accordance with instructions of the
8 manufacturer of the child restraint device. For children aged
9 through 3 years, such restraint device must be a separate
10 carrier or a vehicle manufacturer's integrated child seat. For
11 children aged 4 through 8 5 years who are less than 4 feet 9
12 inches in height, a separate carrier, an integrated child
13 seat, or a child booster seat must seat belt may be used. The
14 court shall dismiss the charge against a motor vehicle
15 operator for a first violation of this paragraph upon proof of
16 purchase of a federally approved child restraint device.
17 Section 3. Notwithstanding that the amendments
18 provided in this act to section316.613(1)(a), Florida
19 Statutes, shall not take effect until January 1, 2002,
20 effective July 1, 2001, a driver of a motor vehicle who does
21 not violate the then-existing provisions of that paragraph,
22 but whose conduct would violate that paragraph, as it will be
23 amended effective January 1, 2002, may be issued a verbal
24 warning and given educational literature by a law enforcement
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26 Section 4. Except as otherwise provided herein, this
27 act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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31 And the title is amended as follows:
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1 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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4 A bill to be entitled
5 An act relating to child restraint
6 requirements; creating the Child Safety Booster
7 Seat Act of 2001; amending s. 316.613, F.S.;
8 revising requirements with respect to the use
9 of child restraint devices; providing for a
10 phase-in period; providing effective dates.
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