Title: A resolution designating December 2020 as "National Impaired Driving Prevention Month".
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This resolution designates December 2020 as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 799 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 799

  Designating December 2020 as ``National Impaired Driving Prevention 
                                Month''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 10, 2020

  Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Designating December 2020 as ``National Impaired Driving Prevention 
                                Month''.

Whereas, in 2018, the most recent data available, the United States recorded 
        10,511 deaths from drunk driving, of whom 231 were children aged 14 and 
        under;
Whereas, in 2018, 29 percent of all fatal motor vehicle crashes involved 
        alcohol-impaired driving;
Whereas, between December 16, 2020, and January 1, 2021, the National Highway 
        Traffic Safety Administration and partnering State and local law 
        enforcement agencies will engage in high visibility mobilization to 
        prevent impaired driving;
Whereas, in 2018, 42 percent of all impaired driving cases evaluated by drug 
        recognition experts found multi-substance impairment, according to the 
        International Association of Chiefs of Police;
Whereas, in 2019, nearly 20,000,000 people aged 16 and older in the United 
        States drove under the influence of alcohol;
Whereas, in 2019, nearly 13,700,000 people aged 16 and older in the United 
        States drove under the influence of cocaine (including crack), heroin, 
        hallucinogens, inhalants, methamphetamine, or marijuana, which is an 8 
        percent increase compared to 2018;
Whereas the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that new technologies 
        that prevent alcohol-impaired drivers from operating vehicles can save 
        9,000 lives per year and that driver assistance systems, which help 
        prevent human errors on the road, can potentially reduce the number of 
        crashes and their severity;
Whereas, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the use of ignition 
        interlock devices prevented more than 3,000,000 attempts of alcohol-
        impaired driving between 2006 and 2018; and
Whereas the National Transportation Safety Board included ending alcohol and 
        other drug-impaired driving on its Most Wanted List of Transportation 
        Safety Improvements for 2019-2020: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) commends the efforts of law enforcement agencies and 
        officers to enforce impaired driving laws;
            (2) supports national and State high visibility enforcement 
        campaigns, such as Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over;
            (3) recognizes the need for greater research on how drugs 
        affect and, in some cases, impair an individual's ability to 
        operate a motor vehicle;
            (4) recognizes that technological solutions have the 
        potential to save thousands of lives each year;
            (5) supports programs to better collect data on impaired 
        driving, including data on illicit drug use by drivers;
            (6) supports programs to train law enforcement officials on 
        detecting and stopping impaired driving; and
            (7) designates December 2020 as ``National Impaired Driving 
        Prevention Month''.
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