TO: | Honorable Joseph Pickett, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB537 by Berman (Relating to the transportation of children in passenger vans; creating an offense.), As Introduced |
The bill would create as an offense allowing a child younger than 17 years of age to ride in a passenger van designed to transport 15 or fewer passengers, including the driver, without securing the child individually by a safety belt.
Enforcement and fines collected from enforcement are not anticipated to have a significant fiscal impact to the state or units of local government.
Source Agencies: | 405 Department of Public Safety
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LBB Staff: | JOB, KJG, DB
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