University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1981
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Child safety bill clears panel
RvRRADSTERTZ
Staff Reporter
Lawrence State Rep. Jessie Branson's child passenger safety bill neither died nor out of committee as included in Branon, had predicted.
Instead the bolt hosed out of the House Public Safety and Welfare Committee with a resounding 10 to 4 recommendation for approval.
On the trail to state law, the bill faces a formidable obstacle in getting out on the House floor for debate and final action.
The bill proposes making child restraint mandatory for children under 2 years old riding in moving motor vehicles.
HOUSE SPEAKER Wendell Lady said that he did not know whether the bill would get out on the floor.
"It really made it out of committee?" Lady, R-Overland Park, asked after hearing the bill's latest status. "Well, then the next step is for the speaker to decide if it is going to be debated, and then I will know't know what I am going to do about it."
Lady said he had not looked at the bill closely. He did say, however, that he could understand the logic behind the bill.
Branson, D-Lawrence, said that although she hoped the bill would progress faster, she did not think there was a need to work on the House calendar to work it into.
"At least it had a good start," Branson said. "The next step is going to be tough for it because of all of the confusion of trying to meet work deadlines, it's a very big rush right now and I act on all of the bills before the house."
BRANSON SAID that for more than a week she had been trying to convince the other members of the committee of the merits of her bill.
She' said most of the members probably changed their minds after a day of testimony by mothers, KU reseers; cheers, emergency room workers, pediatricians and highway patrol officers.
"So many of the members of the committee were so unaware of the problem when I began pushing for it," Branson said. "But by the time that the committee day, several of the members had changed their stand and voted for the bill."
Even Republicans who had been strongly against the personal freedom restraints the law would imply voted to measure once it was amended, she said.
Branson, however, said she had no trouble accepting the amendments because they were mainly superficial to the ideal of child safety.
"Several people from Lawrence came up to say that there were parts of the bill that would be bad for them because they had big families," he said. "They had a language on several points, like the provision to give a fine to violators."
SOME OF THE HEAVEN that were amended to the bill were changing a fine to a warning for violators, reducing the age of the child to be restrained from 5 to 2 and, along with the warning, more information about child safety education.
The bill also was amended to read that violations only could take place in the front seats of the vehicles. It also was changed to give stronger language about the Department of Transnational's role in education and use of the law.
"I still think that this was a major victory in getting this through committee," Branson said.
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