1. SCOHTS Strategic Plan Goal 3: Promoting Key Safety Legislation
Tony Kane
SCOHTS 2011 Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas

2. Goal 3 – Promote Key Safety Legislation
Goal 3 - Identify and promote key national and state safety legislation.
Support federal legislation that improves safety and increases safety funding.
Support and monitor model state legislation in key safety areas.

3. Strategy 1 – Support Federal Legislation
Action 1 – discuss opportunities for other organizations to join the joint reauthorization statement developed by the State Highway Safety Alliance.
Meet with associations
Update joint statement
Report to SCOHTS

4. Strategy 1 – Support Federal Legislation
Action 2 – AASHTO, GHSA and CVSA, and other members of the State Highway Safety Alliance will meet with key authorizing committees in Congress to discuss the associations’ joint positions on related federal legislation.
Report to SCOHTS

5. Strategy 2 – Support and Monitor Model State Legislation
Action 1 – Participate in safety partners’ efforts to develop model state legislation on key safety issues.
Action 2 – Monitor new state legislation related to highway safety.
Action 3 – Communicate current status, best practices and lessons learned.

6. Strategy 2 – Support and Monitor Model State Legislation
Safety Management Task Group 5
Represent member departments’ interests in discussions to develop model state safety legislation
Develop and share best practices
Provide updates to SCOHTS and Safety Management

7. Discussion Associations to coordinate with?
Model state safety legislation efforts?
Revise scope of Task Group 5?