Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:1406 Primary Sponsor:Giese Type of Legislation:CR Subject:Safe Kids Day Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19940510 Computer Document Number:CYY/16214AC.94 Introduced Date:19940509 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940510 Last History Type:Received from House Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Giese J. Verne Smith Richter Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved ____ ______ ____________ ______________________________ ___ ____________ 1406 Senate 19940510 Received from House 1406 House 19940510 Introduced, adopted, returned with concurrence 1406 Senate 19940509 Introduced, adopted, sent to HouseView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
DECLARING WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1994, AS "SAFE KIDS DAY" IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Whereas, each year 8,000 of America's children die from unintentional injuries while an additional 50,000 are permanently disabled; and
Whereas, on average, one child dies of an injury in South Carolina every twenty-one and one-half hours, and South Carolina's childhood injury rate is twenty-two percent higher than the national rate; and
Whereas, these tragic injuries, so called "accidents", are often predictable and preventable; and
Whereas, May 8-14, 1994, has been proclaimed National SAFE KIDS Week, and during that week hundreds of communities nationwide will be focusing on childhood injury prevention activities; and
Whereas, the South Carolina SAFE KIDS Coalition, which is affiliated with the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, has been established to help promote awareness and prevent childhood injury by uniting diverse groups into local coalitions; and
Whereas, the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, supported by Johnson and Johnson, is uniting with state and local SAFE KIDS coalitions and other childhood injury prevention activities to provide vital child safety information. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, declares Wednesday, May 11, 1994, as "SAFE KIDS DAY".