STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

SENATE BILL 195	By:	Ellis

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to state highways; directing the display of certain electronic messages on certain state holidays; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1913 of Title 69, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  On a holiday as designated by this state, the following messages shall be intermentally displayed across all Intelligent Transportation System message boards found on the state highway system:
1.  No Text is worth dying for;
2.  More than one hundred thousand (100,000) crashes causing life-threatening injuries or deaths are the result of texting; and
3.  When texting you are 23 times more likely to be in an accident.
B.  The messages shall be displayed for no less than 2 hours on the designated state holiday.
C.  The provisions of this act shall not be in effect if an Amber Alert, Silver Alert or any other message the Department of Transportation deems a priority message is already on display.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2013.
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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