[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2992]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4033. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself and Mr. Markey) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. 
Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill 
H.R. 2577, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, 
and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       In division A, on page 49, between lines 6 and 7, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. 142. (a) From amounts made available to the National 
     Highway Traffic Safety Administration under this title, the 
     Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
     Administration shall use such sums as may be necessary--
       (1) to modify the labeling and owner's manual information 
     requirements under section 571.208 of title 49, Code of 
     Federal Regulations, to require the owner's manual for any 
     vehicle sold in the United States to include warning language 
     similar to the following: ``If possible, children should be 
     placed behind unoccupied front seats in a rear seating 
     position, as appropriate based on the child's age and size. 
     In rear end crashes, the backs of occupied front seats are 
     prone to collapse under the weight of their occupants. If 
     this occurs, the seat backs and their occupants can strike 
     children in rear seats and cause severe or fatal injuries.''; 
     and
       (2) to modify the child restraint systems requirements 
     under section 571.213 of title 49, Code of Federal 
     Regulations, to require that the label on rear facing child 
     seats depicted in Figure 10 of such section include the 
     following statement: ``Place behind an unoccupied front seat 
     whenever possible.''.
       (b) Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, the Administrator of the National Highway 
     Traffic Safety Administration shall--
       (1) include data in the Crash Investigation Sampling System 
     and the Fatality Analysis Reporting System regarding the 
     presence, location, and consequences of seatback failure or 
     seatback collapse caused by a vehicle crash; and
       (2) determine whether local police crash investigators 
     should include photographs of vehicles involved in crashes 
     and the surrounding crash scene in the databases listed in 
     paragraph (1) to provide the National Highway Traffic Safety 
     Administration a better basis for selecting crashes for 
     further investigation.
       (c) The Administrator of the National Highway Traffic 
     Safety Administration shall conduct a study to identify the 
     structural adjustments that would be necessary to prevent a 
     seatback from collapsing in a rear end crash based on the 
     rear impact test procedure under section 571.301 of title 49, 
     Code of Federal Regulations.
       (d) Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, the Administrator of the National Highway 
     Traffic Safety Administration shall issue a rule that updates 
     section 571.207 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
     a successor regulation), relating to standards for motor 
     vehicle seating systems based on the findings of the study 
     conducted under subsection (c).
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