Government Polls Parents on Kid Car Booster Seats Again.
Published Date: 4/2/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants to keep collecting info about how families use booster seats for kids. They’re asking the public to share thoughts before June 2, 2025, to extend this survey. This helps keep kids safer in cars without costing much time or money for those involved.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Survey supports booster-seat outreach and law changes
NHTSA will use the survey to measure restraint use—especially booster seats for children ages 4-7—and to improve outreach to caretakers. The collection is conducted to support Section 14(i) of the TREAD Act, which directs DOT to reduce deaths and injuries among 4- to 8-year-olds caused by failure to use a booster seat by twenty-five percent, and the findings may be of interest to State legislatures that are considering mandatory or enhanced booster seat laws.
You may be asked to spend ~4 minutes
If you are a motorist with a child under 13, NHTSA may approach you at gas stations, selected fast-food restaurants, day care centers, or recreation centers and ask you to participate voluntarily in the National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats. The survey estimates about 4,600 adult motorists will be interviewed per survey, each spending about 4.25 minutes, yielding an annualized burden of 163 hours and an estimated annual opportunity cost to respondents of $8,329.30 ($3.62 per response). The survey is conducted biennially and NHTSA requests comments on the extension by June 2, 2025.
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