Bill Text: NY K00049 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 22-28, 2023, as National Passenger Safety Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-7)

Status: (Passed) 2023-01-24 - adopted [K00049 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-K00049-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 49

BY: M. of A. Magnarelli

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        January 22-28, 2023, as  National  Passenger  Safety
        Week in the State of New York

  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  custom  of this Legislative Body to recognize
official weeks that are set aside to increase awareness of concerns that
affect the lives of each and every New Yorker; and

  WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and  in  full  accord  with  its
long-standing  traditions,  this  Legislative  Body  is  justly proud to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January  22-28,  2023,  as
National Passenger Safety Week in the State of New York; and

  WHEREAS,  Everyone  has an important role to play in increasing road
safety; in 2019, passenger  deaths  accounted  for  25  percent  of  all
traffic fatalities nationwide; and

  WHEREAS,   According   to   the   National  Highway  Traffic  Safety
Administration's (NHTSA) preliminary estimates, traffic deaths increased
seven percent in 2020, and 18 percent in the first six months  of  2021;
and

  WHEREAS,  Historic  increases in traffic deaths occurred even though
there was a 13 percent decrease in vehicles miles traveled; and

  WHEREAS, NHTSA's data shows the main behaviors driving this increase
were speeding, impaired driving and failure to wear seat belts; and

  WHEREAS, Whether a driver  is  impaired  by  alcohol  or  drugs,  is
speeding,  driving  too  aggressively, driving distracted or cannot stay
awake at the wheel, bad  driving  choices  put  passengers  at  risk  of
serious injury or death; and

  WHEREAS,  Many  of those lives might have been saved had a passenger
in the car insisted the driver slow  down,  stop  texting,  or  not  get
behind the wheel in the first place; and

  WHEREAS,   Passengers,  especially  teens  and  young  adults,  need
education and encouragement to empower them to save lives by calling out
unsafe driving in the car as it happens; and

  WHEREAS, Parents should also be educated  and  encouraged  to  teach
their children about the importance of speaking up or not getting in the
car with someone who is drunk, drugged or distracted; and

  WHEREAS,  It  is  imperative that there be greater awareness of this
serious issue, and more must be done  to  increase  activity  at  local,
State and National levels; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January  22-28,  2023,  as
National  Passenger  Safety  Week  in  the  State of New York; and be it
further


  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.