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Safe Kids, Safe Cars Act of 2004

Safe Kids, Safe Cars Act of 2004 - Requires the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to: (1) conduct a rulemaking to increase utilization of child dummies in motor vehicle safety tests; and (2) develop a child crash test dummy capable of measuring injury forces in a simulated rollover crash.

Requires the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) launch a consumer information program relating to child safety in rollover crashes; (2) submit a report to Congress that evaluates technologies designed to reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and deaths to children and improve the performance of safety belts for four- to eight-year-olds; (3) complete a pending rulemaking to require technologies to prevent the accidental closing of motor vehicle windows by children; and (4) establish a publicly available database that collects information on injuries and deaths in nontraffic, noncrash events involving motor vehicles.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S247-248)

Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH](R-OH)Sponsor
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