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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jan 26, 2004
Safe Kids, Safe Cars Act of 2004 - Requires the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to: (1) conduct a rulemaking to increase utilization of child dummies in motor vehicle safety tests; and (2) develop a child crash test dummy capable of measuring injury forces in a simulated rollover crash.
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) launch a consumer information program relating to child safety in rollover crashes; (2) submit a report to Congress that evaluates technologies designed to reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and deaths to children and improve the performance of safety belts for four- to eight-year-olds; (3) complete a pending rulemaking to require technologies to prevent the accidental closing of motor vehicle windows by children; and (4) establish a publicly available database that collects information on injuries and deaths in nontraffic, noncrash events involving motor vehicles.
People & committees
Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] · R–OH
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S247-248)
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S214-215)
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