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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Safe Kids, Safe Cars Act of 2004 - Requires the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to: (1) conduct a rulemaking to increase utilization of child dummies in motor vehicle safety tests; and (2) develop a child crash test dummy capable of measuring injury forces in a simulated rollover crash.</p> <p> Requires the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) launch a consumer information program relating to child safety in rollover crashes; (2) submit a report to Congress that evaluates technologies designed to reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and deaths to children and improve the performance of safety belts for four- to eight-year-olds; (3) complete a pending rulemaking to require technologies to prevent the accidental closing of motor vehicle windows by children; and (4) establish a publicly available database that collects information on injuries and deaths in nontraffic, noncrash events involving motor vehicles.</p>]]></text>
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