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FL S0932

Resolution

Status

Introduced

2/15/2013

Primary Sponsor

Rene Garcia

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Origin

Senate

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Recognizes March 2013 as "Aaron Cohen Bike Safety Awareness Month" in Florida
  • Notes that approximately 4 percent of all motor vehicle crashes in Florida involve bicycles, with annual bicyclist injury and death costs exceeding $4 billion
  • Records that in 2011, more than 4,600 cyclists were seriously injured and 120 killed in Florida traffic crashes, representing a 58 percent increase in fatalities from 2010
  • Identifies Alachua, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Lee, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, Pasco, and Pinellas counties as having the highest bicycle fatality rates between 2006 and 2011
  • Honors Aaron Cohen, a 36-year-old cyclist killed in a hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway in Miami-Dade County on February 15, 2012

Legislative Description

Aaron Cohen Bike Safety Awareness Month

Last Action

Withdrawn from further consideration, companion bill(s) passed, see SR 1778 (Adopted)

3/12/2013

Full Bill Text

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