Bill Title: Relating to motor vehicles; to amend Sections 32-5A-350, 32-5A-351, and 32-5A-352, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 32-5A-350.1 and 32-5A-353 to 32-5A-359, inclusive, to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide prohibitions on the use of a wireless telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle, with exceptions; to further provide criminal penalties; to provide exemptions; to distribute a portion of any fines collected to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs for the purchase of devices to enable substantially hands-free voice-based communications in a motor vehicle and to provide the devices to certain low-income families in the state; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-31 - Indefinitely Postpone [HB8 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
House	Carry Over to the Call of the Chair	2023-04-04	56	41	0	8	105	Passed	Link	View
House	Adopt	2023-04-04	91	4	6	4	105	Passed	Link	View
House	Adopt	2023-04-04	56	34	11	4	105	Passed	Link	View