There is hereby established a committee to be designated the State Safety Coordinating Committee which shall be composed of the Governor as chairman thereof, the Director of Public Safety, the Director of the State Department of Transportation, two members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate, two members of the House appointed by the Speaker, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, the State Toxicologist and the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a person appointed by the Governor for a term of four years from the state at large. The same per diem allowance and travel expenses paid state employees will be paid to the Governor's appointee. Thereafter, he shall serve four-year terms. The ex officio members shall serve until the expiration of the terms for which they have been elected. The appointive members shall serve for the terms for which they have been appointed.

The State Safety Coordinating Committee shall meet regularly upon call of the Governor for the purpose of exploring every facet of the complex problem of traffic safety; to identify major highway and traffic problems; to formulate concrete plans of action to meet those needs; to establish a schedule of priorities for action; and to coordinate the separate programs adopted by traffic officials in all executive branches of state government, as well as those of county and municipal governments, and those of civic, commercial, industrial, labor, fraternal, religious, educational and national organizations in a major effort to promote all aspects of public safety.

The State Safety Coordinating Committee shall study specifically the problems of interstate and intrastate highway safety; the feasibility and advisability of the adoption of interstate highway safety compacts; the adoption of uniform laws and ordinances, uniform signs, signals and markings; the means of obtaining more uniform enforcement of traffic laws, the use of motor vehicle safety equipment; and the problem of engineering safety control in roads and highways.

The State Safety Coordinating Committee shall also from time to time make recommendations to the Legislature for the enactment of laws designed to promote improvement in existing programs of highway safety and for the adoption of additional programs or measures as may be considered necessary and advisable to accomplish the objects of the committee.

The State Safety Coordinating Committee is hereby authorized to expend for payment of administrative expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred in its program any funds appropriated to it by Section 32-5-313.

The State Safety Coordinating Committee is hereby authorized to allocate any funds appropriated to it to the office of the coordinator of highway and traffic safety for expense of highway and traffic safety programs and for participation to secure benefits available under the National Highway Safety Act of 1966, and all subsequent amendments thereto, and similar federal programs of highway and traffic safety.

The State Safety Coordinating Committee is hereby authorized to allocate any funds appropriated to it to the Department of Education or to any educational institution in Alabama for the sole purpose of instituting and conducting a program of prelicensing driver education and training. All funds so allocated shall be set up in a special fund in the State Treasury known as the 'Driver Education and Training Fund' which shall be used solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.