A bill to establish an incentive program to promote effective safety belt laws and increase safety belt use.
Safe, Efficient Automobile Travel to Better Ensure Lives in Transit (SEATBELT) Act of 2003 - Amends Federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) make a two-year grant to each State that has in effect a primary enforcement safety belt use law; and (2) carry out a program for making safety belt usage award grants to eligible States. States as purposes of the latter grant program to: (1) increase the national seat belt usage percentage; and (2) reward States that maintain a seat belt usage rate above 85 percent or demonstrate an increase in such rate.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8573-8574)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8574)
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