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BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 2051: Failure to wear safety belts

Revising negligence standards regarding the failure to wear safety belts.

Summary

  • Removes the provision in statute declaring that a person's failure to use a seat belt is not negligence, and provides that a person's failure to use a seat belt may be admissible as evidence of negligence in a civil action.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 20, 2003
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Phil Rockefeller (D-23)
Introduced
February 20, 2003 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2004
Companion bill
SB 5498

AN ACT Relating to the failure to wear safety belt assembly;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Phil Rockefeller (D-23)

3 co-sponsors (3 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Patricia Lantz D-26Jim Moeller D-49Al O'Brien D-1

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. First reading, referred to Judiciary.

HB 2051 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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