Products Liability Law Daily Wrap Up, NHTSA NEWS—COMMENT CALENDAR—NHTSA actions open for public comment, (Jun 26, 2025)

By WK Editorial Staff

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration actions, with links to source documents, are open for public comment until the dates indicated.

As detailed in previous Products Liability Law Daily stories, the following National Highway Traffic Safety Administration actions are open for public comment until the dates indicated below. Comments may be submitted to the docket number identified in the heading of this document by any of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Mail: Docket Management Facility: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001. Hand Delivery or Courier: 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. Fax: 202-493-2251.

June 30, 2025. NHTSA has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend FMVSS No. 213a, Child restraint systems—side impact protection, to exempt school buses from side impact requirements, delay the standard’s compliance date, and revise test dummy procedures. The proposed rule also would amend FMVSS No. 213, Child restraint systems, and FMVSS No. 213b, Child restraint systems; Mandatory applicability beginning December 5, 2026, to exclude school bus child restraint systems from the requirements to provide attachments for connection to the vehicle's child restraint anchorage system and to change certain labeling requirements (NHTSA Notice of proposed rulemaking; Grant of petitions for rulemaking and other proposals, 90 Fed. Reg. 23009 (May 30, 2025)).

July 29, 2025. NHTSA has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend FMVSS No. 204, Steering Control Rearward Displacement, to exempt vehicles that meet the frontal barrier crash protection requirements of FMVSS No. 208, Occupant Crash Protection (NHTSA Notice of proposed rulemaking, 90 Fed. Reg. 22968 (May 30, 2025)).

July 29, 2025. NHTSA has issued notices of proposed rulemaking to remove obsolete provisions from several FMVSS and other regulations (NHTSA Notices of proposed rulemaking, 90 Fed. Reg. 22964; 90 Fed. Reg. 22973; 90 Fed. Reg. 22976; 90 Fed. Reg. 22979; 90 Fed. Reg. 22983; 90 Fed. Reg. 22986; 90 Fed. Reg. 22991; 90 Fed. Reg. 22995; 90 Fed. Reg. 22999; 90 Fed. Reg. 23002; 90 Fed. Reg. 23006; 90 Fed. Reg. 23018; 90 Fed. Reg. 23022 (May 30, 2025)).

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