STUDY ON CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS.

SEC. 522. STUDY ON CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS. (a) Study.— The Secretary shall conduct a study on the availability, effectiveness, cost, and usefulness of restraint systems that may offer protection to a child carried in the lap of an adult aboard an air carrier aircraft or provide for the attachment of a child restraint device to the aircraft. (b) Study Criteria.— Among other issues, the study shall examine the impact of the following: (1) The direct cost to families of requiring air carriers to provide restraint systems and requiring infants to use them, including whether airlines will charge a fare for use of seats containing infant restraining systems; such estimate to cover a ten-year period. (2) The impact on air carrier aircraft passenger volume by requiring use of infant restraint systems, including whether families will choose to travel to destinations by other means, including automobiles; such estimate to cover a ten-year period. (3) The impact over a 10-year period on fatality rates of infants using other modes of transportation, including automobiles. (4) The efficacy of infant restraint systems currently marketed as able to be used for air carrier aircraft. (c) Report.— Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives a report on the results of the study conducted under subsection (a).