ORLANDO – Some lawmakers want to upgrade daycare vans with alarms that would go off if something or someone is left in the backseat.
Florida is second in the nation in hot car deaths, a bill aimed to lower this number is facing hurdles. “I just can’t believe that this bill has taken so long to pass.
This is going on the third year, and it is just crazy,” Sen. Linda Stewart said. “Every year we sine die,and we start counting up the deaths for the next year.” For the last several years, Stewart has been trying to move the Child Safety Alarm Act through the Florida legislature, one which she says would save the lives of children. “Every year I file the bill.