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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 405

   To amend title 49 of the United States Code to require automobile 
  manufacturers to provide automatic door locks on new passenger cars 
                        manufactured after 2004.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2001

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 49 of the United States Code to require automobile 
  manufacturers to provide automatic door locks on new passenger cars 
                        manufactured after 2004.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Auto Safety Assurance Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AUTOMATIC AUTOMOBILE DOOR LOCKS.

    (a) In General.--Title 49 of the United States Code is amended by 
inserting after section 30127 the following new section:
``Sec. 30128. Automatic door locks
    ``(a) Not later than January 1, 2002, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall prescribe under this chapter an amendment to 
Federal Motor Vehicle Standard 206 issued under the National Traffic 
and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. The amendment shall require that 
all passenger cars manufactured after January 1, 2004, shall be fitted 
with equipment which automatically locks the doors of the vehicle 
when--
            ``(1) the vehicle transmission is engaged; or
            ``(2) the vehicle reaches a specified rate of speed.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table at the beginning of subtitle IV 
of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item 
related to section 30127 the following new item:

``30128. Automatic door locks.''.
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