Monty Mason
- Democratic
Primary
Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, with certain exceptions. The bill provides that a violation is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Current law prohibits only the reading of an email or text message on the device and manually entering letters or text in the device as a means of communicating, with the same exceptions.
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
Referred from Transportation by voice vote
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Placed on Calendar
Read first time
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1
Committee substitute agreed to 19106291D-S1
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1768S1
Read second time
Reading of substitute waived
Rereferred to Courts of Justice
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Presented and ordered printed 19104680D
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| Senate: Presented and ordered printed 19104680D | HTML |
| Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106291D-S1 | HTML |
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