Calif. Senate approves "safe ski" bill for kids

The California State Senate announced yesterday the approval of legislation to make California's ski slopes the safest in the nation for kids.    

I thought that kids were typically subjected to skiing on the bunny hill?   

The legislation led by Senator Leland Yee (D- San Francisco) would require minors to wear helmets while skiing and snowboarding. Is this really what the State of California needs right now? Legislation can sometimes sound so ridiculous, you almost want to break the laptop you presently writing on...   

The backed up sewage tank which is the Legislature in Sacramento approved SB 105 under Yee's legislation, as if he doesn't have anything more important to do in his time right now, will also require ski resorts to post signs about the law on trail maps, websites and throughout ski resorts' property and impose fines not larger than $25 on parents that fail to provide helmets to their children, while they are skiing.   

Yee believes that SB 105 will "significantly reduce instances of traumantic brain injury or death for such a vulnerable population."   

Of course wearing helmets has shown to reduce traumantic brain injury. According to the National Ski Areas Association, 19 of the 38 people that died on ski slopes in the 2009-2010 winter season were not wearing helmets at the time of their deaths. What Yee doesn't address is what percentage of those individuals that died on ski slopes during this time were minors?  

 It should be the parents responsiblity for teaching their kids how to ski and to provide safety for them on the ski slopes that may be deemed to dangerous. It is simply common sense and it should not be the State's responsibility. Soon, you'll probably hear Senator Yee asking tax payers to pay for helmets to be sent out to ski resorts across the Sierra Nevada mountains.   

Oh and by the way, California still has a $26 billion budget deficit, unemployment around 10% and we're basically bankrupt.