Bill Text: CA ACR74 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 60-18)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 108, Statutes of 2023. [ACR74 Detail]
Download: California-2023-ACR74-Chaptered.html
Assembly Concurrent Resolution
No. 74
CHAPTER 108
Relative to Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
June 23, 2023.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 74, Friedman.
Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
This measure would designate the month of May 2023 as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month in California.
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Fiscal Committee: NOBill Text
WHEREAS, Motorcycle riding is a popular form of efficient transportation and recreation for more than 1,400,000 licensed Californians. Motorcycles travel approximately 21,000,000 miles each year in the United States, riding an average of 2,500 miles per year. Motorcycles provide a means of transportation that uses fewer resources, causes less wear and tear on public roadways, and increases available parking areas; and
WHEREAS, Through the Department of the California Highway Patrol’s California Motorcyclist Safety Program, the state trained over 52,000 riders in 2022, and 1,400,000 since the start of the program, along with the assistance of the California Office of Traffic Safety, through education, and the Department of Transportation’s freeway message boards. These efforts led to a 2.66-percent decrease in motorcycle fatalities since 2014, while at the same time, nonmotorcycle traffic fatalities in California increased by 41.3 percent, and nationwide motorcycle fatalities increased by an average of 10 percent. California leads the way in training and safety for motorcyclists, and we are saving lives; and
WHEREAS, It is important that drivers of all vehicles be aware of one another and learn to share the road and practice courtesy; and
WHEREAS, ABATE of California, which is a motorcyclists rights and safety organization, the American Motorcyclist Association, the Bay Area Riders Forum, the Modified Motorcycle Association of California, and the California Motorcycle Dealers Association are organizations that actively promote the safe operation of motorcycles, advocate for more rider training courses through California Highway Patrol provider Total Control Training, and advocate increasing motorist recognition of motorcycles; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the month of May 2023 as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month in California, acknowledges the need for awareness on the part of all drivers, especially with regard to sharing the road with motorcycles, and honors motorcyclists’ many contributions to the communities in which they live and ride; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
