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Letter: Support NH Senate Bill (SB) 118 Child Occupant Protection

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Advocates For Highway and Auto, Kids and Car Safety, and the National Safety Council support NH Senate Bill (SB) 118 to update the state’s child occupant protection statute. Read full letter.  

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Advocates’ Letter to New Hampshire House Transportation Committee on HB 386

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Read our letter to the New Hampshire House Transportation Committee on HB 386 here. 

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Advocates Urges Maryland General Assembly to Upgrade Child Passenger Safety Law

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Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for children in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)). Maryland’s current child passenger safety law requires children under age seven and less than 57 inches in height to use a child safety seat. Since that law was enacted, new research has been conducted and best practices in child passenger protection have been updated, calling for requirements that make further specifications related to stages of physical development from infancy through early childhood.

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Letter in Support of Assembly Bill (AB) 118 to Strengthen Nevada’s Child Occupant Protection Statute

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On May 13, 2021 Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) sent a letter to the Nevada state Senate in support of Assembly Bill (AB) 118.  The measure would require that children remain rear facing in a child safety seat until age two or older and would add a minimum height requirement for children younger than age six to attain before they transition from use of a booster seat to a seat belt.

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