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handle is hein.congrec/hotcars0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional Budget Office 7 Cost Estimate August 16, 2019 By Fiscal Year, illions of Dollars 2019 2019-2024 2019-2029 Direct Spending (Outlays) 0 0 0 Revenues Deficit Effect 0 0 0 0 0 0 S. 1601 would require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue a new regulation requiring new passenger vehicles to have a system to alert the driver to check the backseat after the engine has been shut off. The bill also would require NHTSA to contract with an independent third party to complete a study on retrofitting passenger vehicles with technology to eliminate the risk of children being forgotten in the backseat. Using information from NHTSA, CBO estimates implementing those provisions would require one additional employee, several passenger vehicles for testing purposes, other equipment, and additional funds for the third-party study. In total, implementing the bill would cost $3 million over the 2020-2024 period, CBO estimates. Such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriations. S. 1601 also would require states that receive funding from NHTSA's Highway Safety Grants Program to use a portion of those grants to carry out public education programs on the risks of leaving a child in a vehicle that has been turned off. Those grants are funded by contract authority (a form of mandatory budget authority) and distributed to the states by formula. The bill would not authorize additional funds for those grants, and CBO expects that implementing the new public education programs would not significantly change the rate at which the NHTSA grant funds are spent by the states. S. 1601 would impose a private-sector mandate as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) on manufacturers of automobiles. CBO estimates that the cost of See also CBO's Cost Estimates Explained, www.cbo.gov/publication/54437; How CBO Prepares Cost Estimates, www.cbo.gov/publication/53519; and Glossary, www.cbo.gov/publication/42904.

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