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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, There are approximately 8.8 million licensed | ||||||
| 3 | drivers in the State of Illinois; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, There are more than 9.7 million passenger cars and | ||||||
| 5 | trucks and approximately 347,300 motorcycles registered in | ||||||
| 6 | Illinois; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Bicycles, scooters, mopeds, commercial vehicles, | ||||||
| 8 | and pedestrians also share Illinois' roadways; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Many factors are to blame for traffic fatalities, | ||||||
| 10 | including, but not limited to, impaired driving, speeding, | ||||||
| 11 | driver distraction, driver inexperience, and failing to be | ||||||
| 12 | properly restrained in the vehicle; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, More work can be done to eliminate the causes and | ||||||
| 14 | the high number of traffic fatalities on Illinois' roadways; | ||||||
| 15 | therefore, be it
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| 16 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 17 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 18 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there is created the Secretary | ||||||
| 19 | of State's Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, consisting of | ||||||
| 20 | nine members, appointed as follows: the Illinois Secretary of | ||||||
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| 1 | State or his designee; a member of the House majority caucus, | ||||||
| 2 | appointed by the Speaker of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives; a member of the House minority caucus, | ||||||
| 4 | appointed by the House Minority Leader; a member of the Senate | ||||||
| 5 | majority caucus, appointed by the President of the Senate; a | ||||||
| 6 | member of the Senate minority caucus, appointed by the Senate | ||||||
| 7 | Minority Leader; an appointee from the National Highway Traffic | ||||||
| 8 | Safety Administration, appointed by the Regional Administrator | ||||||
| 9 | of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; an | ||||||
| 10 | appointee from the National Safety Council, appointed by the | ||||||
| 11 | Executive Director of the National Safety Council; an appointee | ||||||
| 12 | from the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, | ||||||
| 13 | appointed by the Executive Director of the Northwestern | ||||||
| 14 | University Center for Public Safety; and an appointee from the | ||||||
| 15 | Illinois State Police, appointed by the Director of the | ||||||
| 16 | Illinois State Police; the Illinois Secretary of State or his | ||||||
| 17 | designee shall serve as the chair of the Advisory Committee; | ||||||
| 18 | and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Secretary of State shall | ||||||
| 20 | provide administrative and other support to the Advisory | ||||||
| 21 | Committee; the members of the Advisory Committee shall serve | ||||||
| 22 | without compensation; and be it further | ||||||
| 23 | RESOLVED, That the Advisory Committee will meet at the call | ||||||
| 24 | of the chair, but will meet a minimum of three times per year | ||||||
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| 1 | at various locations throughout the State of Illinois; and be | ||||||
| 2 | it further | ||||||
| 3 | RESOLVED, That the Advisory Committee will look at all | ||||||
| 4 | aspects of traffic safety in an effort to determine legislative | ||||||
| 5 | and administrative action that can be taken to lower the number | ||||||
| 6 | of traffic-related fatalities in Illinois; and be it further | ||||||
| 7 | RESOLVED, That the Advisory Committee shall share its | ||||||
| 8 | legislative and administrative recommendations with the | ||||||
| 9 | Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of | ||||||
| 10 | the Illinois Senate as warranted.
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