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Creating the House Emergency Motorist Aid Study Committee; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation has had emergency motorist aid call boxes installed on Interstate 185; and

WHEREAS, such emergency motorist aid call boxes have enhanced the safety of such interstate highway and provided security and comfort to the motorists in West Georgia; and

WHEREAS, Interstate 75 is one of the most highly traveled north-south corridors in the county; and

WHEREAS, there are emergency motorist aid call boxes on Interstate 75 as it passes through other states; and

WHEREAS, emergency motorist aid call boxes would provide safety and security to tourists traveling to and through our state; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation should consider placing emergency motorist aid call boxes at intervals along both the easterly and westerly shoulders of Interstate 75 between the Florida-Georgia border and the Tennessee-Georgia border.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that there is created the House Emergency Motorist Aid Study Committee to be composed of five members of the House of Representative to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Speaker shall designate a member of the committee as chairperson of the committee. The chairperson shall call all meetings of the committee.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the committee shall undertake a study of the conditions, needs, issues, and problems mentioned above or related thereto and recommend any actions or legislation which the committee deems necessary or appropriate. The committee may conduct such meetings at such places and at such times as it may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to exercise fully and effectively its powers, perform its duties, and accomplish the objectives and purposes of this resolution. The members of the committee shall receive the allowances provided for in Code Section 28-1-8 of the O.C.G.A. but shall receive the same for not more than three days unless additional days are authorized. The funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution shall come from the funds appropriated to the House of Representatives. In the event the committee makes a report of its findings and recommendations, with suggestions for proposed legislation, if any, such report shall be made on or before December 1, 2001. The committee shall stand abolished on December 1, 2001.