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• Business
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Congress

To assist citizens, communities, and states to increase their seat belt and child safety seat use rates, and to provide them the tools they need, Members of Congress should:

• Enact and fully fund Section 2002 (m) of the Administration's National Economic Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997 (NEXTEA) which provides incentive grants to states for improving their occupant protection programs or their seat belt use rates; and Section 11006 of the Surface Transportation Safety Act of 1997 which provides for a transfer of a certain percentage of a state's highway construction funds to safety programs, beginning in FY 2003, if the state fails to enact primary seat belt laws or fails to reach specified seat belt use levels

• Fully fund the occupant protection portions of the Department of Transportation's fiscal year 1998 budget request

• Advocate seat belt and child safety seat use publicly and with constituents

• Actively support and become involved in coalitions of businesses and national organizations to advance seat belt and child safety seat education, legislation, and enforcement