Ronald A. Villanueva
Primary
Prohibits any person from texting or otherwise using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, defined in the bill, when workers are present. The bill adds an exemption to the prohibition against using a handheld personal communications device in a moving motor vehicle for an operator of a vehicle who activates, deactivates, or initiates a factory-installed feature or function on the vehicle.
Left in Courts of Justice
Read third time
Rereferred to Courts of Justice
Passed by temporarily
Rereferred to Courts of Justice
Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Constitutional reading dispensed
Read third time and passed House (80-Y 18-N)
Printed as engrossed 17100696D-E
Engrossed by House as amended HB1606E
Committee amendments agreed to
Read second time
Passed by for the day
Read first time
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100696D
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| House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100696D | HTML |
| House: Printed as engrossed 17100696D-E | HTML |
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