HB370 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Randy Wood Representative
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Paul DeMarco Mike Hubbard Allen Farley
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Airbag fraud, crime of created, penalties, enhanced penalties for physical injury, Sec. 13A-11-270 am'd, Sec. 13A-11-271 repealed
Description: Under existing law, a person commits the offense of fraudulent repair of an airbag if, after an airbag has deployed in a motor vehicle, he or she installs a new airbag that the person knew was not designed in accordance with applicable federal standards or installs a used airbag in a motor vehicle and fails to disclose to the owner that a used airbag was installed.
This bill would define the term "airbag" and rename this offense "airbag fraud" and would provide criminal penalties for importing, installing, reinstalling, selling, or offering to sell a counterfeit or nonfunctional airbag, selling, installing, or reinstalling a device in a motor vehicle that causes the vehicle's diagnostic system to inaccurately indicate that the vehicle is equipped with a functional airbag, or installing or requesting another to install a counterfeit or nonfunctional airbag and selling or offering to sell the vehicle to another person with the intent to deceive the purchaser about the existence of the counterfeit airbag or nonfunctional airbag in the vehicle.
This bill would also provide enhanced criminal penalties if the airbag fraud caused physical injury to a person.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses