Senate Bill S7392A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the sale of salvaged airbags; repealer

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    • Passed Assembly
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2025-S7392 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8379
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
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: S8513, A7423
2023-2024: S6502, S9496, A6057

2025-S7392 - Summary

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

2025-S7392 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7392 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7392
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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 vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED.
   § 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 Section 415-c of the vehicle and traffic law is  REPEALED  and  a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.  THIS SECTION  SHALL
 NOT  APPLY  TO  THE  SALE  OF  REBUILT, RE-MANUFACTURED, OR NON-ORIGINAL
 EQUIPMENT AIRBAGS OR AIRBAG SYSTEM  COMPONENTS,  OR  TO  ANY  AIRBAG  OR
 AIRBAG  SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN DISASSEMBLED, ALTERED, REPAIRED, OR HAS HAD
 ANY PARTS REMOVED OR REPLACED.
   2. A NON-DEPLOYED RECYCLED AIRBAG THAT IS UNDER AN ACTIVE MANUFACTURER
 RECALL, COMES FROM A FLOOD VEHICLE AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER, OR
 THAT DOES NOT HAVE AN IDENTIFIABLE SERIAL NUMBER, SHALL NOT  BE  OFFERED
 FOR SALE.
   3.  PRIOR  TO  SALE, A PROVIDER OF NON-DEPLOYED RECYCLED AIRBAGS SHALL
 CONDUCT AN INSPECTION OF SUCH AIRBAGS, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT  NOT  BE
 LIMITED TO:
   (A) THE IDENTIFICATION AND RECORDING OF THE VEHICLE YEAR, MAKE, MODEL,
 VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, AND AIRBAG TRIM COLOR OF THE VEHICLE THAT
 THE NON-DEPLOYED RECYCLED AIRBAG WAS REMOVED FROM; AND

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03688-01-5
 S. 7392                             2
 
              

2025-S7392A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8379
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
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: S8513, A7423
2023-2024: S6502, S9496, A6057

2025-S7392A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S7392A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7392A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7392--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 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.
                                                            LBD03688-02-5
              

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