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Senate Rejects Motorcycle Helmet Mandate; Health, Freedom Arguments Clash
Utah Senate · February 17, 1995
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Summary
Senate Bill 28, requiring helmets for motorcyclists, failed after extended debate that weighed public-health costs and federal grant sanctions against personal freedom and enforcement concerns. The vote was 5 ayes to 24 nays.
Senators debated Senate Bill 28, a proposal to require motorcycle helmets, for more than an hour Friday before voting the measure down.
Sponsor Senator Holmgren cautioned that failure to adopt a helmet law had led to federal sanctions in related traffic-safety grants and cited a fiscal note of roughly $2.1 million in federal program money at…
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