SB186 Alabama 2014 Session

Under existing law, every person transporting a child in a motor vehicle operated on the roadways, streets, or highways of this state must use an aftermarket or integrated child passenger restraint system meeting applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards and certain requirements under state law. A person who violates this provision may be fined $25 for each offense

Fifteen dollars of a fine imposed for violation of this provision is used to distribute vouchers for size appropriate child passenger restraint systems to limited income families in the state. The Alabama Head Injury Foundation administers this program

This bill would provide that the program would be administered by the Department of Public Health and would delete certain provisions relating to audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts which are no longer needed because the Department of Public Health is already audited

To amend Section 32-5-222, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the distribution of fines for violation of the child safety restraint law for vouchers for child passenger restraint systems for low-income families; to provide for the distribution and the administration of the program by the Department of Public Health and to delete certain provisions relating to audit.