[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 122 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 122

   Designating December 1993 as ``National Drunk and Drugged Driving 
                          Prevention Month''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               August 5 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Pell, Mr. D'Amato, and Mr. 
 Metzenbaum) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
   Designating December 1993 as ``National Drunk and Drugged Driving 
                          Prevention Month''.

Whereas impaired driving is the most frequently committed violent crime in the 
        United States;
Whereas last year 45 percent of those who died on our Nation's highways were the 
        result of alcohol involved crashes;
Whereas last year nearly eighteen thousand people were killed and one million 
        two hundred thousand were injured in crashes involving alcohol;
Whereas impaired driving continues to cost society some $46,000,000,000 each 
        year in direct costs;
Whereas medical costs associated with impaired driving run approximately 
        $5,500,000,000 a year;
Whereas injury and property damage resulting from impaired driving cause 
        physical, emotional, and economic hardship for hundreds of thousands of 
        adults and young people;
Whereas the ongoing work of citizen activists groups such as Mothers Against 
        Drunk Driving (MADD), Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD), Remove 
        Intoxicated Drivers (RID), and the National Commission Against Drunk 
        Driving continue to promote good prevention efforts which have 
        contributed to a 30 percent reduction in alcohol-related traffic deaths 
        over the past decade;
Whereas a decade of intense public education effort has proved that alcohol-
        related highway crashes are not accidents and can be prevented;
Whereas comprehensive community-based strategies to further reduce and prevent 
        impaired driving tragedies are known to be effective;
Whereas an increased public awareness of the gravity of the problem of drunk and 
        drugged driving may help to sustain efforts to develop comprehensive 
        solutions at the State and local levels;
Whereas more than seventy public and private sector organizations have joined 
        together to carry out a nationwide public information, education, and 
        enforcement campaign during the December holiday season;
Whereas the Secretary of Transportation has set a goal by the year 1997 to 
        reduce alcohol-related fatalities to 43 percent and MADD has set a goal 
        by the year 2000 to reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities to 40 
        percent;
Whereas the Secretary of Health and Human Services has set a goal by the year 
        2000 for all fifty States to prohibit any allowable blood-alcohol 
        concentration tolerance level for drivers younger than age twenty-one; 
        and
Whereas December is a month of many holidays and celebrations, with more drivers 
        on the roads and an increased number of social functions, is a 
        particularly appropriate time to focus national attention on this 
        critical problem; Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the month of December, 
1993 is designated as ``National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention 
Month'', and the President is authorized and requested to issue a 
proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe 
that month with appropriate activities.

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