Enhancing Child Passenger Safety in Underserved Communities Act

Bill: 117-hr-3547
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2021-05-25
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Enhancing Child Passenger Safety in Underserved Communities Act</strong></p> <p>This bill incorporates efforts to improve child safety into federally supported transportation programs.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill includes promoting the proper use of child safety seats and increasing public awareness of pediatric vehicular heatstroke within the scope of state highway safety programs.</p> <p>In addition, the bill expands the permitted uses of occupant protection grants. (These grants support activities to reduce highway deaths and injuries resulting from unrestrained or improperly restrained individuals riding in motor vehicles.) Currently, states may use the grants to purchase and distribute child safety seats to low-income families. Under this bill, states may also use their grants to hire and train certified child passenger safety technicians and educate parents and caregivers about the proper use of child safety seats. Further, the bill requires certain states to expend a portion of their occupant protection grant funds on projects or activities related to child safety seats.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3547 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 25, 2021 Ms. Titus (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi , Mr. Sires , Ms. Roybal-Allard , and Ms. Lee of California ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend title 23, United States Code, to encourage widespread and proper use of child safety seats, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Enhancing Child Passenger Safety in Underserved Communities Act . 2. Highway safety programs Section 402(2)(A) of title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) in clause (vii) by striking and at the end; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (ix) to encourage widespread and proper use of child safety seats (including booster seats), with an emphasis on encouraging the use of such child safety seats in underserved populations; and (x) to increase public awareness of the dangers of pediatric vehicular hyperthermia; . 3. National safety priority programs Section 405(b)(4) of title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A) by striking clause (v) and inserting the following: (v) carry out programs in low-income and underserved populations to— (I) recruit and train nationally certified child passenger safety technicians among first responders, including law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical personnel, organizations for children, and other individuals serving low-income and underserved populations; (II) educate parents and caregivers about the proper use and installation of child safety seats; and (III) purchase and distribute child safety seats to families in low-income and underserved populations; and ; and (2) in subparagraph (B)— (A) by striking 100 percent and inserting 90 percent ; and (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting , except that 10 percent of such funds shall be used to carry out a program described in subparagraph (A)(v). .