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          Date of Hearing: April 23, 2015  


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                                Richard Gordon, Chair


          ACR 52  
          (Frazier) - As Amended April 16, 2015


          SUBJECT:  Distracted Driving Awareness Month.


          SUMMARY:  Proclaims April 2015 as Distracted Driving Awareness  
          Month and call for awareness of the distracted driving problem  
          and support for programs and policies to reduce the incidence of  
          distracted driving.  Specifically, this resolution makes the  
          following legislative findings:


          1)Distracted driving is defined as any activity that could  
            divert a person's attention away from the primary task of  
            driving; whether it is visual, manual, or cognitive  
            distraction.


          2)A 2013 statewide traffic safety survey conducted by the  
            California Office of Traffic Safety reported that more than 36  
            percent of Californians surveyed thought texting or talking on  
            a cell phone while driving posed the biggest safety problem on  
            California roadways.


          3)In 2012, 3,328 people were killed and 421,000 were injured in  
            distraction-affected crashes.









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          4)In 2013, nearly 70 percent of the California drivers surveyed  
            said they had been hit or nearly hit by a driver who was  
            talking or texting on a cell phone.


          5)Parents who engage in distracting behaviors while driving more  
            frequently have teens who do the same; according to a 2012  
            teen driver distraction study conducted jointly by the  
            University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and  
            Toyota, teens send or read text messages once a trip 26 times  
            more often than their parents think they do.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  None


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          None on file




          Opposition


          None on file




          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800








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