Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Advocates has informed leadership of the Nebraska Legislature’s Transportation and Telecommunications Committee of our support of Legislative Bill (LB) 594 to upgrade the state’s distracted driving law to primary enforcement while recommending improvements to enhance safety based on research and experience. Read the full letter here.
read moreAdvocates has urged the leadership of the Kentucky Senate Committee on Transportation to oppose House Bill (HB) 15. This measure will reduce the minimum driving age by one year to 15 years old and reduce the minimum age for an intermediate license by six months to 16 years old without increasing the holding period. If enacted, it will weaken the…
read moreAdvocates has weighed in to oppose House Bill 74 in a letter to the Mississippi Senate Highways and Transportation Committee. The legislation would increase the speed limit to 70 miles per hour (mph) on highways and 75 mph on interstate highways and access-controlled highways with four or more lanes, endangering state residents and visitors. In 2023 an estimated 715 people…
read moreAdvocates and other safety partners have come out in support of an effort to prevent speeding through the introduction of HB 1139 (and its Senate companion SB 993). The legislation establishes an Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) pilot program to require people whose driver’s licenses are suspended for speeding, reckless driving, and racing to install and use technology that limits a…
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