House Transportation Committee Hearing June 21
Attention Boost MI Kids Coalition Members and Child Safety Advocates:
Michigan has an opportunity to pass legislation that will keep children safer while traveling in motor vehicles, as well as qualify the Michigan Department of State Police Office of Highway Safety Planning to apply for approximately $1,000,000 in federal funds to support booster seat distribution and educational programs!
A hearing has been scheduled by the House Transportation Committee for Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 10:30 AM, in the Anderson House Office Building, 124 N. Capitol, Lansing, MI 48909. The Boost MI Kids Coalition will attempt to coordinate the testimony of advocates given at the hearing. If you are interested in providing testimony, please contact me as soon as possible. Advocates attending the hearing and filling out a card to indicate support is also very effective and encouraged. Now is the time to make our voices heard in the Michigan legislature on this issue. Attached are the following documents to assist you in your advocacy efforts:
Our goal is to have these bills (and a bill being introduced before the hearing that will remove the "nursing mother exemption") passed into law by January 2008, so the time to act is now!
Please share this information with anyone interested in protecting Michigan's children, and encourage them to contact the House and Senate leadership, committee chairs, and their own legislator to express support for these bills. If you have any difficulty receiving or opening the attachments, please let me know and a Boost MI Kids Coalition member will contact you.
Sincerely,
Larry DeShazor, Chair
Boost MI Kids Coalition
www.boostmikids.org