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Assembly Bill A8379A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the sale of salvaged airbags; repealer

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2025-A8379 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7392
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld & add §415-c, amd §398-d, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7423, S8513
2023-2024: A6057, S6502, S9496

2025-A8379 - Summary

Provides for the sale of recycled inflatable restraint systems; allows for the sale of non-deployed recycled inflatable restraint systems in New York, provided that such inflatable restraint systems meet required safety standards.

2025-A8379 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8379
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  STIRPE,  SIMON,  MANKTELOW  -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the sale  of
   salvaged  airbags; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relat-
   ing thereto

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision 6 of section 398-d of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 78 of the laws  of  1998,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (e) [On and after March first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, in] IN no
 case  shall  any  inflatable  restraint system be replaced with anything
 other than a  newly  manufactured  inflatable  restraint  system  or  [a
 salvaged  inflatable  restraint  system certified according to standards
 established by a nationally recognized testing, engineering and research
 body as provided for in subdivision two of] AN ORIGINAL  EQUIPMENT  NON-
 DEPLOYED  RECYCLED  AIRBAG  IN  COMPLIANCE  WITH  section  four  hundred
 fifteen-c of this chapter.
   § 2. Section 415-c of the vehicle and traffic law is  REPEALED  and  a
 new section 415-c is added to read as follows:
   §  415-C. SALE OF ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT NON-DEPLOYED RECYCLED AIRBAGS. 1.
 ANY RECYCLED AIRBAG OFFERED FOR  SALE  SHALL  BE  NON-DEPLOYED  ORIGINAL
 EQUIPMENT  REMOVED  FROM  A  SALVAGED  VEHICLE, AND INSTALLED IN ANOTHER
 VEHICLE FOR WHICH IT IS A CORRECT REPLACEMENT PART.
   2. A NON-DEPLOYED RECYCLED AIRBAG THAT IS UNDER AN ACTIVE MANUFACTURER
 RECALL, COMES FROM A FLOOD VEHICLE AS INDICATED ON AN  OFFICIAL  SALVAGE
 EXAMINATION  AND  TITLE APPLICATION FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER,
 OR THAT DOES NOT HAVE  AN  IDENTIFIABLE  SERIAL  NUMBER,  SHALL  NOT  BE
 OFFERED FOR SALE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03688-03-5
 A. 8379                             2
 
              

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2025-A8379A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7392
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld & add §415-c, amd §398-d, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7423, S8513
2023-2024: A6057, S6502, S9496

2025-A8379A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the sale of recycled inflatable restraint systems; allows for the sale of non-deployed recycled inflatable restraint systems in New York, provided that such inflatable restraint systems meet required safety standards.

2025-A8379A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8379--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE, SIMON, MANKTELOW, KASSAY -- read once and
   referred  to  the  Committee  on  Transportation -- recommitted to the
   Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
   -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules  Committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the sale of
   recycled  inflatable  restraint  systems;  and   to   repeal   certain
   provisions of such law relating thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 6  of  section  398-d  of  the
 vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 78 of the laws of 1998,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (e) [On and after March first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, in] IN no
 case shall any inflatable restraint system  be  replaced  with  anything
 other  than  a  newly  manufactured  inflatable  restraint  system or [a
 salvaged inflatable restraint system certified  according  to  standards
 established by a nationally recognized testing, engineering and research
 body  as  provided  for  in  subdivision  two  of] A RECYCLED INFLATABLE
 RESTRAINT SYSTEM IN COMPLIANCE WITH section four  hundred  fifteen-c  of
 this chapter. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE TERM "RECYCLED INFLAT-
 ABLE  RESTRAINT  SYSTEM"  SHALL  HAVE  THE  SAME MEANING AS SUCH TERM IS
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION FOUR  HUNDRED  FIFTEEN-C  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER.
   §  2.  Section  415-c of the vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED and a
 new section 415-c is added to read as follows:
   § 415-C. SALE OF ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT NON-DEPLOYED  RECYCLED  INFLATABLE
 RESTRAINT  SYSTEMS.  1.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE TERM "RECYCLED
 INFLATABLE RESTRAINT SYSTEM" SHALL MEAN AN INFLATABLE  RESTRAINT  SYSTEM
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03688-08-6
 A. 8379--A                          2
              

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