{"id":23156,"date":"2023-04-15T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=23156&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=23156"},"modified":"2023-04-12T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:04:53","slug":"senator-jason-bean-takes-actions-to-keep-drivers-focused-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/senator-jason-bean-takes-actions-to-keep-drivers-focused-on-the-road-20230415","title":{"rendered":"Senator Jason Bean Takes Actions To Keep Drivers Focused On The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senator Jason Bean of Missouri is busy at work at the Capitol. In the past few weeks, he has sponsored Senate Bill 56, which bans electric device usage while driving.<\/p>\n<h2>SB 56<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/senate.mo.gov\/23info\/BTS_Web\/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&amp;BillID=44625\">SB 56<\/a>, which was combined with SB 61, <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"SB56 &#8211; Enacts provisions relating to prohibitions against using electronic communication devices while operating motor vehicles\" id=\"return-note-23156-1\" href=\"#note-23156-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> prohibits a number of uses of electronic communication devices while operating motor vehicles.<\/p>\n<h2>Last Action<\/h2>\n<p>On March 30th, the bill was passed in the Senate and moved on to the House. On April 3rd, the bill had its second read in the House.<\/p>\n<h2>Deaths<\/h2>\n<p>According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, texting, or doing anything on an electric device, while driving caused 3,522 deaths in 2021. <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"NHTSA\" id=\"return-note-23156-2\" href=\"#note-23156-2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/><div class=\"simple-footnotes\"><h4 class=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h4><ol><li id=\"note-23156-1\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-23156-1\">&#94;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/senate.mo.gov\/23info\/BTS_Web\/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&amp;BillID=44625\">SB56 &#8211; Enacts provisions relating to prohibitions against using electronic communication devices while operating motor vehicles<\/a> <a href=\"#return-note-23156-1\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"note-23156-2\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-23156-2\">&#94;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/risky-driving\/distracted-driving\">NHTSA<\/a> <a href=\"#return-note-23156-2\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jason Bean of Missouri is busy at work at the Capitol. He has sponsored Senate Bill 56, which bans electric device usage while driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23170,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156\/revisions\/23170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}