A resolution designating November 26, 2023, as "Drive Safer Sunday".

Bill: 118-sres-468
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-11-16
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents

Commemorative events and holidays

Commuting

Motor carriers

Motor vehicles

Roads and highways
Latest action: action_date: 2023-11-16
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5558; text: CR S5553)

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-11-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This resolution designates&nbsp;November 26, 2023, as Drive Safer Sunday and encourages the people of the United States to use the Sunday after Thanksgiving as an opportunity to educate themselves about highway safety.</p>

action_date: 2023-11-16
action_desc: Passed House
text: <p>This resolution designates&nbsp;November 26, 2023, as Drive Safer Sunday and encourages the 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 1st Session S. RES. 468 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 16 (legislative day, November 15), 2023 Mr. Warnock (for himself and Mrs. Capito ) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Designating November 26, 2023, 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 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 one 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 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) the people of the United States to use the Sunday after Thanksgiving as an opportunity to educate themselves about highway safety; and (2) designates November 26, 2023, as Drive Safer Sunday .