Seat belt laws in the United States
Most seat belt laws in the United States are left to state law. The first seat belt law was a federal law, Title 49 of the United States Code, Chapter 301, Motor Safety Standard, which took effect on January 1, 1968, that required all vehicles (except buses) to be fitted with seat belts in all designated seating positions. This law has since been modified to require three-point seat belts in outboard-seating positions, and finally three-point seat belts in all seating positions. Seat-belt use was voluntary until New York became the first state to require vehicle occupants to wear seat belts, effective December 1, 1984. By the end of 1995, 50 of the 51 jurisdictions comprising the 50 states and the District of Columbia had adult seat-belt use laws. As of June 2026, New Hampshire remained the only state without an adult seat-belt use law.
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