California To Become the Nanny State

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Parents will have to strap their kids into backseat car booster seats until they are 8 years old or reach a certain height if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a bill the Legislature sent to him Thursday.

Another bill that appears headed to the governor's desk attempts to protect children's health by making it illegal for adults to smoke in a car with young passengers.

California law now requires children younger than 6 or weighing less than 60 pounds to use booster seats -- and sit in the backseat.

That's right a state that has kinky accounting practices to balance the books is going to tell you how to be a parent.