What Kinds of Vehicles Does the New Seat Belt Warning Rule Cover? Almost everything sold ... that states started passing mandatory seat belt laws. New York was the first state do so in that ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a primary seat belt bill into law Thursday that will allow police to pull drivers over simply for failing to wear a seat belt. The law, which will go into effect on June 9, ...

Several supporters argued in favor of a bill that would have allowed law enforcement officers to stop a vehicle if an occupant wasn't wearing a seat belt, the type of primary law that Michigan has.

Local law enforcement departments participated in the Spring 2025 Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign, receiving grants to cover extra patrols focused on ...

Enactment date of the primary seat belt law is in memory of Meghan Cooper, a 15-year-old girl from southeastern Minnesota who died in a traffic accident on June 9, 1999.

A broader sanction sought for misbranding ‘meat’ South Dakota’s mandatory seat belt law took effect in 1995. It was one of the last states to have the law. From 2013 to 2022, 579 people died ...

After years of advocacy work and asking lawmakers to listen, the "Christopher King Seat Belt Law," also known as HB2475, will go into effect July 1. The law requires every adult riding in a car on ...

But some say Michigan's seat belt law can be improved because adults sitting in the backseat aren't required to buckle up. "It's important that laws cover all occupants of a vehicle," said Anne ...