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NHTSA issues Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) to implement laws from Congress. These regulations allow us to fulfill our mission to prevent and reduce vehicle crashes.



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206 49 CFR Part 571 Door Locks and Door Retention Components and Side Impact Protection

We are proposing to amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 206, Door locks and door retention components, in order to add and update requirements and test procedures and to harmonize with the world’s first global technical regulation for motor vehicles.

138 49 CFR Part 571 Tire Pressure Monitoring System

208 49 CFR Part 571 Monitoring the Performance of Advanced Air Bags and Developing Data for Potential Future Air Bag Rulemakings

49 CFR Part 571

Head Restraints
222 49 CFR Part 571 School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection

49 CFR Part 571

Definition of Multifunction School Activity Bus

49 CFR Part 571

Child Restraint Anchorage Systems

49 CFR Part 571

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Power-Operated Window, Partition, and Roof Panel Systems
208 49 CFR Part 571 Seat Belts on Motorcoaches

In accordance with NHTSA’s 2007 Motorcoach Safety Plan and DOT’s 2009 Departmental Motorcoach Safety Action Plan, NHTSA is issuing this NPRM to propose to amend the Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) on occupant crash protection (FMVSS No. 208) to require lap/shoulder seat belts for each passenger seating position in new motorcoaches.This NPRM also proposes to require a lap/shoulder belt for the motorcoach and large school bus driver’s seating positions, which currently are required to have either a lap or a lap/shoulder belt.

49 CFR Part 571, 572, 589

Head Impact Protection

49 CFR Part 571, 598

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Side Impact Protection; Side Impact Phase-In Reporting Requirements

49 CFR Part 571,596

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems; Child Restraint Anchorage Systems
218 49 CFR Part 571. Motorcycle Helmets

A notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) amending FMVSS No. 218 was published on May 21, 2015 (80 FR 29458). The NPRM set forth an interpretation of the definition of “motor vehicle equipment” in the United States Code, as amended by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP–21) Act, and requested comments on two proposed changes to the motorcycle helmet safety standard, FMVSS No. 218. NHTSA proposed to add a definition of “motorcycle helmet” and modify the existing performance requirements of the standard by adding a set of dimensional and compression requirements. These requirements and the associated test procedures would identify those helmets whose physical characteristics indicate that they likely cannot meet the existing performance requirements of the standard. Third, NTHSA proposed an optional alternative compliance process for manufacturers whose helmets do not comply with the proposed dimensional and compression requirements, but do comply with the performance requirements and all other aspects of FMVSS No. 218 . If this proposal is adopted, NHTSA will publish a list of helmets that have complied with the alternative compliance process and can therefore be certified by their manufacturers. The NPRM was the result of the agency’s assessment of other actions that could be taken to further increase the percentage of motorcyclists who wear helmets that comply with the helmet standard.

49 CFR Part 573, 574, 576, 579

Reporting of Information and Documents About Potential Defects; Retention of Records That Could Indicate Defects

49 CFR Part 575

Safety Rating Program for Child Restraint Systems

Safety Rating Program for Child Restraint Systems

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