K.T. Safety Act of 2007

A bill to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to reduce the incidence of child injury and death occurring inside or outside of light motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

3/13/2008--Reported to Senate amended. Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007, or the K.T. Safety Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to initiate a rulemaking for motor vehicles to require:
(1) automatic reversal of direction by power windows and panels when they detect an obstruction;
(2) an expanded rearward field of view to prevent backing incidents; and
(3) automatic transmissions to have an anti-rollaway system that requires the service brake to be depressed before the transmission can be shifted out of park, which shall function in any starting system key position in which the transmission can be shifted out of park. Requires the Secretary, if it is determined that no additional safety standards are reasonable and appropriate, to:
(1) report to Congress the reason such standards were not prescribed; and
(2) make available to the public information on which vehicles are or are not equipped with automatic reversal of direction by power windows and panels when they detect an obstruction. Provides a phase-in period for the power window and rearward visibility provisions. Requires:
(1) motor vehicle manufacturers for each year through 2010 to transmit to the Secretary the make and model of motor vehicles with automatic transmissions that do not have an anti-rollaway system; and
(2) the Secretary to make such information available to the public. Requires the Secretary to:
(1) establish and maintain a database of injuries and deaths in nontraffic, noncrash motor vehicle events;
(2) supplement an existing consumer information program on child safety or create a new program with information about hazards to children in nontraffic, noncrash incident situations; and
(3) make such information available to the public.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
• and 37 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT]
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Samuel Brownback [R, KS]
  • Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA]
  • Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND]
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
  • Sen. Byron Dorgan [D, ND]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. John Ensign [R, NV]
  • Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA]
  • Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX]
  • Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. John McCain [R, AZ]
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO]
  • Sen. Robert Menendez [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
  • Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL]
  • Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL]
  • Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
  • Sen. John Reed [D, RI]
  • Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS]
  • Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
  • Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
  • Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
  • Sen. Arlen Specter [R, PA]
  • Sen. Ted Stevens [R, AK]
  • Sen. John Sununu [R, NH]
  • Sen. Jon Tester [D, MT]
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
  • Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
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Committees

• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.694

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
February 27, 2007

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• Added to calendar on Mar 13, 2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 619..
• Mar 13, 2008: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-275.
• May 16, 2007: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
• May 10, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5925-5926)
• Feb 27, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• Feb 27, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2278-2279)
• Introduced on Feb 27, 2007.
• Feb 27, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2278-2279)

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Related Bills:

• H.R.1216

Related Issue Areas:

• Transportation
• Administrative procedure
• Automobiles
• Child health
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• Child safety
• Children
• Consumer education
• Consumers
• Data banks
• Department of Transportation
• Disabled
• Executive departments
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Government publicity
• Government statistics
• High technology
• Law
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Motor vehicle safety
• Safety appliances
• Technology
• Traffic accidents and safety
• Transportation and the disabled

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February 28, 2008 Campaign urges car safety with kids

The bill, S.694, would also require new cars with automatic windows to have an automatic reversal mechanism in case there is an obstruction. ...

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May 16, 2007 Senate committee approves bill to improve child safety

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee reported out S. 694, the Cameron Gulbransen KIDS AND CARS Safety Act of 2007, a bill to protect ...

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September 20, 2008 Lehrer H. gegen Gaby Jenö, Markus Unterfinger und Thomas Baerlocher

Neues Handbuch des Staats- und Verwaltungsrechtes des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Christoph Meyer, staatspersonal, S. 694., Basel 2008). Davon kann in casu keine Rede sein. Was den Vorwurf angeht, der Rekurrent habe sich geweigert, ...

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May 28, 2008 Nited States Postal Service

... of the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail 110th Congress: S. 694, A bill to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to reduce the incidence of child injury and death occurring ...

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May 05, 2008 S 27 AS 488/07 ER Angemessenheit der Aufwendungen in vollem Umfang ...

Kammer des Ersten Senats, NVwZ-RR 2001, S. 694 (695)). Auch in diesem Fall sind die grundrechtlichen Belange des Antragstellers umfassend in die Abwägung einzustellen. Die Gerichte müssen sich schützend und fördernd vor die Grundrechte ...

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