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Forty-seven states require booster seats for kids seven and under… But not Florida.

In Florida kids four and under have to travel in car seats. At five the law only requires they be buckled up. Lawmakers say most of those kids are too short to be buckled up like an adult. State Senator Thad Altman, whose sponsoring legislation to require booster seats, says the safety belt crosses their bodies in a dangerous way.

“It’s actually in some cases is more dangerous because that seatbelt goes across that child’s neck. So what this does is it puts it in the law that children 4’9 or less, seven years old or less are required to be in a booster seat,” said Altman.

Similar bans have failed in the legislative process several years running.