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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Consumer Reports magazine has reported that 58 |
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| children in the United States were accidentally killed by |
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| backing vehicles during 2002; and
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| WHEREAS, An estimated 60% of these fatalities involve |
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| drivers who were parents or close relatives of the victims; and
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| WHEREAS, More than 100 additional children have been killed |
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| or injured in accidents involving a vehicle's power window; |
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| therefore be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| urge our elected Representatives and Senators in the United |
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| State Congress to enact legislation requiring the U.S. |
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| Secretary of Transportation to keep a separate annual record of |
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| all motor vehicle accidents in which a vehicle backed into or |
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| backed over a pedestrian and a separate annual record of all |
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| accidents in which a person was injured by the power window of |
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| a motor vehicle, to analyze these records, and to submit a |
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| report of his or her findings to the U.S. Senate and the U.S. |
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| House of Representatives no later than March 31, 2006, and no |
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| later than March 31 of each succeeding calendar year; and be it |
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| further
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| RESOLVED, That we urge our elected Representatives and |
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| Senators in the United States Congress to enact additional |
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| legislation requiring a hospital that treats a person under the |
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| age of 18 years injured in an accident to report the accident |
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| to the nearest trauma unit for record keeping, and to enact |
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| legislation requiring that every death certificate concerning |
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| the accidental death of a person under the age of 18 years be |
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| accompanied by a detailed report as to the cause of the |
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| person's death; and be it further
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