S.Amdt. 4033

SA 4033. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself and Mr. Markey) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms.
Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill
H.R. 2577, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation,
and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In division A, on page 49, between lines 6 and 7, insert
the following:
Sec. 142. (a) From amounts made available to the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration under this title, the
Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration shall use such sums as may be necessary--
(1) to modify the labeling and owner's manual information
requirements under section 571.208 of title 49, Code of
Federal Regulations, to require the owner's manual for any
vehicle sold in the United States to include warning language
similar to the following: ``If possible, children should be
placed behind unoccupied front seats in a rear seating
position, as appropriate based on the child's age and size.
In rear end crashes, the backs of occupied front seats are
prone to collapse under the weight of their occupants. If
this occurs, the seat backs and their occupants can strike
children in rear seats and cause severe or fatal injuries.'';
and
(2) to modify the child restraint systems requirements
under section 571.213 of title 49, Code of Federal
Regulations, to require that the label on rear facing child
seats depicted in Figure 10 of such section include the
following statement: ``Place behind an unoccupied front seat
whenever possible.''.
(b) Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Administrator of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration shall--
(1) include data in the Crash Investigation Sampling System
and the Fatality Analysis Reporting System regarding the
presence, location, and consequences of seatback failure or
seatback collapse caused by a vehicle crash; and
(2) determine whether local police crash investigators
should include photographs of vehicles involved in crashes
and the surrounding crash scene in the databases listed in
paragraph (1) to provide the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration a better basis for selecting crashes for
further investigation.
(c) The Administrator of the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration shall conduct a study to identify the
structural adjustments that would be necessary to prevent a
seatback from collapsing in a rear end crash based on the
rear impact test procedure under section 571.301 of title 49,
Code of Federal Regulations.
(d) Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Administrator of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration shall issue a rule that updates
section 571.207 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or
a successor regulation), relating to standards for motor
vehicle seating systems based on the findings of the study
conducted under subsection (c).
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