Bill Text: IL HB3403 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person may not operate a vehicle if a device capable of displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications is operating and is located in the vehicle in a position where the moving images are visible to the driver while the vehicle is in motion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-08-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0499 [HB3403 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB3403-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB3403 Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Robert Rita SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/12-604.1
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person may not operate a vehicle if a device capable of displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications is operating and is located in the vehicle in a position where the moving images are visible to the driver while the vehicle is in motion.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 12-604.1 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/12-604.1)
Sec. 12-604.1. Video devices.
(a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle if a
television receiver, a video monitor, a television or video
screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a
television broadcast or video signal that produces
entertainment or business applications is operating and is
located in the motor vehicle in a position where the moving
images are at any point forward of the back of the driver's
seat, or is operating and visible to the driver while driving
the motor vehicle is in motion.
(b) This Section does not apply to the following equipment
when installed in a vehicle:
(1) a vehicle information display;
(2) a global positioning display;
(3) a mapping display;
(4) a visual display used to enhance or supplement the
driver's view forward, behind, or to the sides of a motor

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vehicle for the purpose of maneuvering the vehicle;
(5) television-type receiving equipment used
exclusively for safety or traffic engineering studies; or
(6) a television receiver, video monitor, television
or video screen, or any other similar means of visually
displaying a television broadcast or video signal, if that
equipment has an interlock device that, when the motor
vehicle is driven, disables the equipment for all uses
except as a visual display as described in paragraphs (1)
through (5) of this subsection (b).
(c) This Section does not apply to a mobile, digital
terminal installed in an authorized emergency vehicle, a motor
vehicle providing emergency road service or roadside
assistance, or to motor vehicles utilized for public
transportation.
(d) A person convicted of violating this Section is guilty
of a petty offense and shall be fined not more than $100 for a
first offense, not more than $200 for a second offense within
one year of a previous conviction, and not more than $250 for a
third or subsequent offense within one year of 2 previous
convictions.
(Source: P.A. 94-185, eff. 1-1-06.)