SB163 creates criminal penalties for airbag fraud, criminalizing selling, installing, or disguising counterfeit or nonfunctional airbags and repealing the separate crime about selling a vehicle without an airbag.
SB163 amends the airbag-related statute to make it a crime to install or sell a counterfeit or nonfunctional airbag or to use a device that makes a car’s diagnostic system falsely show a working airbag. It also criminalizes installing or paying someone to install a counterfeit or nonfunctional airbag and selling the car with the intent to deceive the buyer about the airbag. Penalties start as a Class A misdemeanor for airbag fraud, with a Class C felony if the fraud leads to serious injury or death. It repeals the law that criminalized selling a motor vehicle without an airbag and sets the act to take effect three months after passage.
Assigned Act No. 2014-138 on 03/11/2014.
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 479
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 356
Fielding motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 355
Fielding Amendment Offered
Fielding motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 354
Fielding Amendment Offered
Fielding motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 353
Judiciary first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature