Title: Expressing the sense of Congress that passengers in motor vehicles should be educated and encouraged to advocate for their own safety and the safety of others during National Passenger Safety Week, January 23 through 29, 2022, and throughout the year.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that passengers in motor vehicles should be educated and encouraged to advocate for their own safety and the safety of others during National Passenger Safety Week and throughout the year.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 67 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 67

  Expressing the sense of Congress that passengers in motor vehicles 
should be educated and encouraged to advocate for their own safety and 
the safety of others during National Passenger Safety Week, January 23 
               through 29, 2022, and throughout the year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2022

  Mr. Cleaver (for himself and Mr. Graves of Missouri) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of Congress that passengers in motor vehicles 
should be educated and encouraged to advocate for their own safety and 
the safety of others during National Passenger Safety Week, January 23 
               through 29, 2022, and throughout the year.

Whereas everyone has an important role to play in increasing road safety;
Whereas passenger deaths accounted for 25 percent of all traffic deaths 
        nationwide in 2019;
Whereas traffic deaths increased 7 percent in 2020 and 18 percent in 2021 
        according to the preliminary estimates of the National Highway Traffic 
        Safety Administration (NHTSA);
Whereas passenger vehicle occupant deaths rose 5 percent in 2020;
Whereas these historic increases in traffic deaths occurred as there was a 13 
        percent decrease in vehicle miles traveled;
Whereas NHTSA's data show the main behaviors leading to this increase were 
        speeding, impaired driving, and failure to wear seat belts;
Whereas, whether a driver is impaired by alcohol or drugs, speeding, driving too 
        aggressively, driving distracted, or unable to stay awake at the wheel, 
        bad driving choices put passengers at risk of serious injury or death;
Whereas many lives might have been saved had a passenger in the car insisted 
        that the driver slow down, stop texting, or not get behind the wheel in 
        the first place;
Whereas passengers, especially teens and young adults, need education and 
        encouragement to empower them to save lives by calling out unsafe 
        driving in the car as it happens; and
Whereas parents also need education and encouragement to teach their children 
        about the importance of speaking up or not getting in the car with 
        someone who is drunk, under the influence of drugs, or distracted: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that passengers in motor vehicles 
should be educated and encouraged to advocate for their own safety and 
the safety of others during National Passenger Safety Week and 
throughout the year.
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