Table 2.
The First Ten Adopter States for Each Type of Child Passenger Safety Laws
| State | Any child restraint law |
Explicit infant seat law |
Explicit booster seat law |
Rear seating law |
Minor seatbelt law |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | 1 (1990) | 1 | ||||
| AL | 9 (1982) | 9 (2006) | 10 (2006) | 3 | ||
| AR | 0 | |||||
| AZ | 0 | |||||
| CA | 9 (2005) | 1 | ||||
| CO | 5 (2003) | 6 (2003) | 2 | |||
| CT | 7 (2005) | 6 (1986) | 2 | |||
| DE | 8 (1982) | 2 (1998) | 2 | |||
| FL | 7 (1986) | 1 | ||||
| GA | 7 (2004) | 1 | ||||
| HI | 0 | |||||
| IA | 6 (2004) | 1 | ||||
| ID | 0 | |||||
| IL | 2 (1985) | 1 | ||||
| IN | 0 | |||||
| KS | 4 (1982) | 1 | ||||
| KY | 10 (1982) | 1 | ||||
| LA | 7 (2004) | 1 | ||||
| MA | 4 (1982) | 8 (1987) | 2 | |||
| MD | 0 | |||||
| ME | 0 | |||||
| MI | 4 (1982) | 1 | ||||
| MN | 4 (1982) | 1 | ||||
| MO | 0 | |||||
| MS | 0 | |||||
| MT | 0 | |||||
| NC | 0 | |||||
| ND | 0 | |||||
| NE | 0 | |||||
| NH | 0 | |||||
| NJ | 5 (2001) | 1 (1985) | 2 | |||
| NM | 2 (2001) | 8 (2005) | 3 (2001) | 2 (1985) | 4 | |
| NV | 2 (1985) | 1 | ||||
| NY | 2 (1985) | 1 | ||||
| OH | 0 | |||||
| OK | 0 | |||||
| OR | 10 (2007) | 3 (2002) | 2 | |||
| PA | 5 (2003) | 9 (1987) | 2 | |||
| RI | 2 (1980) | 1 (1997) | 2 | |||
| SC | 1 (2001) | 3 (2001) | 2 | |||
| SD | 0 | |||||
| TN | 1 (1978) | 1 (2001) | 7 (2004) | 3 | ||
| TX | 0 | |||||
| UT | 0 | |||||
| VA | 0 | |||||
| VT | 4 (2003) | 1 | ||||
| WA | 3 (2002)* | 4 (2002) | 2 | |||
| WI | 8 (2006) | 9 (2006) | 10 (2006) | 10 (1987) | 4 | |
| WV | 3 (1981) | 1 | ||||
| WY | 6 (2003) | 1 |
*
Washington’s law explicitly requiring the use of a rear-facing infant seat was removed, effective June 1, 2007.