A resolution designating December 1, 2024, as "Drive Safer Sunday".

Bill: 118-sres-894
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA]
Introduced: 2024-11-14
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This resolution designates December 1, 2024, as Drive Safer Sunday and encourages all people of the United States to use the Sunday after Thanksgiving as an opportunity to educate themselves about highway safety.</p>

tv_txt: III 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 894 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 14, 2024 Mr. Warnock (for himself and Mrs. Capito ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation November 21 (legislative day, November 20), 2024 Committee discharged; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary RESOLUTION Designating December 1, 2024, as Drive Safer Sunday .

Whereas motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the United States; Whereas every individual traveling on roads and highways needs to drive in a safer manner in order to reduce deaths and injuries that result from motor vehicle crashes; Whereas, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, wearing a seat belt saves more than 15,000 lives each year; Whereas Road Safe America, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded after the tragic death of Cullum Owings on December 1, 2002, in a preventable truck accident, has been committed to raising awareness about the importance of driving safely; Whereas the Senate wants all people of the United States to understand the life-saving importance of wearing a seat belt and encourages motorists to drive safely, not just during the holiday season, but every time they get behind the wheel; and Whereas the Sunday after Thanksgiving is 1 of the busiest highway traffic days of the year: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) encourages— (A) high schools, colleges, universities, administrators, teachers, primary schools, and secondary schools to launch campus-wide educational campaigns to urge students to focus on safety when driving; (B) national trucking firms— (i) to alert employee drivers to be especially focused on driving safely on the Sunday after Thanksgiving; and (ii) to publicize the importance of the day through use of Citizens Band (commonly known as CB ) radios and truck stops across the United States; (C) clergies to remind their members to travel safely when attending services and gatherings; (D) law enforcement personnel to remind drivers and passengers to drive safely, particularly on the Sunday after Thanksgiving; and (E) all people of the United States to use the Sunday after Thanksgiving as an opportunity to educate themselves about highway safety; and (2) designates December 1, 2024, as Drive Safer Sunday .

tv_txt: III 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 894 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 14, 2024 Mr. Warnock (for himself and Mrs. Capito ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation RESOLUTION Designating December 1, 2024, as Drive Safer Sunday .

Whereas motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the United States; Whereas every individual traveling on roads and highways needs to drive in a safer manner in order to reduce deaths and injuries that result from motor vehicle crashes; Whereas, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, wearing a seat belt saves more than 15,000 lives each year; Whereas Road Safe America, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded after the tragic death of Cullum Owings on December 1, 2002, in a preventable truck accident, has been committed to raising awareness about the importance of driving safely; Whereas the Senate wants all people of the United States to understand the life-saving importance of wearing a seat belt and encourages motorists to drive safely, not just during the holiday season, but every time they get behind the wheel; and Whereas the Sunday after Thanksgiving is 1 of the busiest highway traffic days of the year: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) encourages— (A) high schools, colleges, universities, administrators, teachers, primary schools, and secondary schools to launch campus-wide educational campaigns to urge students to focus on safety when driving; (B) national trucking firms— (i) to alert employee drivers to be especially focused on driving safely on the Sunday after Thanksgiving; and (ii) to publicize the importance of the day through use of Citizens Band (commonly known as CB ) radios and truck stops across the United States; (C) clergies to remind their members to travel safely when attending services and gatherings; (D) law enforcement personnel to remind drivers and passengers to drive safely, particularly on the Sunday after Thanksgiving; and (E) all people of the United States to use the Sunday after Thanksgiving as an opportunity to educate themselves about highway safety; and (2) designates December 1, 2024, as Drive Safer Sunday .