To authorize manufacturers and dealers of cars, trucks, buses, and multipurpose passenger vehicles and motor vehicle repair businesses to install switches to be used by drivers to deactivate air bags in cars, trucks, buses, and multipurpose passenger vehicles.

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Amends Federal motor vehicle safety law to provide an exception to requirements prohibiting a motor vehicle manufacturer, dealer, or repair business from knowingly making inoperative any motor vehicle safety device. Authorizes such persons to install a device which may be used by a driver to deactivate an air bag in a car, truck, bus, or multipurpose passenger vehicle, as long as the device causes the air bag to activate when the vehicle engine is turned off.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 11 March 1997

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  Introduced in House · EN · 11 March 1997

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