BILL NUMBER: AB 1471	CHAPTERED  09/21/99

	CHAPTER   449
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 26, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 19, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 17, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Havice and Washington

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 27317 to, and to amend the heading of
Article 3 (commencing with Section 27302) of Chapter 5 of Division 12
of, the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1471, Havice.  Vehicles:  air bags:  inflatable restraint
systems:  prohibitions.
   Existing law does not prohibit the installation or reinstallation,
or the distribution or the sale of any previously deployed air bag
that is part of an inflatable restraint system.
   This bill would prohibit any person from engaging in these
activities if the person knows that the air bag was previously
deployed, and would make a violation of this prohibition a
misdemeanor, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by
creating a new crime.
  The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state.  Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The heading of Article 3 (commencing with Section
27302) of Chapter 5 of Division 12 of the Vehicle Code is amended to
read:

      Article 3.  Safety Belts and Inflatable Restraint Systems

  SEC. 2.  Section 27317 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   27317.  Any person who installs or reinstalls for compensation, or
who distributes or sells any previously deployed air bag that is
part of an inflatable restraint system, if the person knows that the
air bag has been previously deployed, is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by
confinement in the county jail for one year or by both that fine and
confinement.
  SEC. 3.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the
only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district
will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction,
eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime
or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government
Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.