To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate

Carbon Monoxide Detection

So far, about half of the states have passed legislation requiring hotels, motels, and public buildings to have carbon monoxide detectors. It needs to be a federal law. In the past four years, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota has introduced a bill on carbon monoxide detection multiple times, yet it has never passed.

Every hotel room I have stayed in over the last four years had an analog phone. I have not used an analog phone in a hotel room in years, but it exists in every single room, at a high cost to the hotel. A carbon monoxide detector would cost much less than an analog telephone, and it would have an operating cost at a fraction of that of the analog phone. The analog phone does very little besides act as an intercom for room service and the front desk, but a CO detector could save lives and protect against illness.

Please help improve the safety of national hotels, motels, and public buildings. Carbon monoxide is odorless, colorless, and fatal!

Why is this important?

My name is Darrell Williams and my 11 year old nephew, Jeffrey L Williams was killed by Carbon Monoxide leak in a Best Western Plus, Boone, NC hotel on June 8th.
In the same room where he was killed, two other adults lost their life to Carbon Monoxide two months prior, and still no CO detector.
A Carbon Monoxide detector would have saved his life, and it would have cost the hotel about $40 to install.
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