Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
For today’s markup in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Advocates has released a Safety Scorecard to urge support for amendments to transportation reconciliation language (pursuant to H. Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025) to improve safety on our roadways. View the full Scorecard here.
read moreAdvocates and other safety organizations have joined forces to support Assembly Bill (AB) 366 which will address California’s drunk driving crisis by protecting and expanding California’s ignition interlock device (IID) program to prevent impaired driving and save lives. California’s current IID program is set to expire at the end of 2025. If the Legislature fails to act, California will become…
read moreAdvocates has sent a letter to leadership of the California Senate Judiciary Committee in support of advancing Senate Bill (SB) 572 to require manufacturers of Level 2 advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) vehicles to report collisions to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) if the federal government ceases requiring crash reporting. Level 2 ADAS vehicles have driver support features including…
read moreAdvocates has urged Montana Governor Greg Gianforte to sign into law House Bill (HB) 586 to enhance protections for child passengers. When children are properly restrained in a safety seat that is appropriate for their age and size, their chance of being killed or seriously injured in a car crash is greatly reduced. Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause…
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