100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4377
 
Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



625 ILCS 25/4  from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1104

     Amends the Child Passenger Protection Act. Provides that when any person is transporting a child in this State who is under the age of 2 years in a motor vehicle of the first division or motor vehicle of the second division weighing 9,000 pounds or less, he or she shall be responsible for properly securing the child in a rear-facing child restraint system, unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more inches tall.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Child Passenger Protection Act is amended  by 
5changing Section 4 as follows:
 



6    (625 ILCS 25/4)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1104)



7    Sec. 4. When any person is transporting a child in
this 
8State
under the age of 8 years in a non-commercial motor 
9vehicle of the
first
division, any truck or truck tractor that 
10is equipped with seat safety belts, any other motor vehicle of 
11the second division with a gross vehicle
weight rating of 9,000 
12pounds or less, or a recreational vehicle on the
roadways, 
13streets or highways of this State, such person shall be

14responsible for providing for the protection of such child by 
15properly
securing him or her in an appropriate child restraint 
16system. The
parent or legal guardian
of a child under the age 
17of
8 years shall provide a child restraint system to any person 
18who
transports
his or her child.

19    When any person is transporting a child in this State who 
20is under the age of 2 years in a motor vehicle of the first 
21division or motor vehicle of the second division weighing 9,000 
22pounds or less, he or she shall be responsible for properly 
23securing the child in a rear-facing child restraint system, 
 
 
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1unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more 
2inches tall. 
3    For purposes of this Section and Section 4b, "child 
4restraint
system" means
any device which meets the standards of 
5the United States Department of
Transportation designed to 
6restrain, seat or position children, which also
includes a 
7booster seat.

8    A child weighing more than 40 pounds may be transported in 
9the back seat
of a motor vehicle while wearing only a lap belt 
10if the back seat of the motor
vehicle is not equipped with a 
11combination lap and shoulder belt.

12(Source: P.A. 95-254, eff. 1-1-08.)