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Regular Session, 2013 ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 5
BY SENATOR CORTEZ AND REPRESENTATI VE STUART BISHOP
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of
Health and Hospitals, and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public
safety services, and the office of motor vehicles to promote statewide, the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Where's baby? Look before you lock
campaign.
WHEREAS, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Where's baby?
Look before you lock campaign is a joint effort between the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and Safe Kids Worldwide to prevent child deaths from heatstroke; and
WHEREAS, heatstroke (medically termed "hyperthermia") is the leading cause of
noncrash vehicle-related deaths for children under the age of fourteen, with at least thirty-
three fatalities reported within the United States for the year 2011; and
WHEREAS, in 2010, there were forty-nine vehicular heatstroke deaths of such
children within the United States; and
WHEREAS, since 1998, at least five hundred thirty-two children nationwide have
lost their lives to vehicular heatstroke, with most deaths occurring among children three
years of age and younger; and
WHEREAS, an unknown number of children are injured each year due to vehicular
heatstroke, suffering ailments including permanent brain injury, blindness, and loss of
hearing, among others; and
WHEREAS, parents and caregivers are the first line of defense against vehicular
heatstroke deaths and injuries; and
WHEREAS, heatstroke deaths and injuries often occur after a child enters an
unlocked vehicle to play unbeknownst to the parent or caregiver, or when a parent or
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forgets an infant in a rear-facing car seat in the back of the vehicle.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Health
and Hospitals, and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services,
and the office of motor vehicles to promote statewide, the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration's Where's baby? Look before you lock campaign.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services, the secretary of the
Department of Health and Hospitals, and the commissioner of the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections, public safety services, and the office of motor vehicles.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES