Virginia House Bill 1360 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 23-13)
Status: Introduced on December 4 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-02-01 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Reckless driving; using a handheld communications device; penalty. Provides that driving while simultaneously using a handheld communications device for something other than verbal communication constitutes driving a motor vehicle that is not under proper control, punishable as reckless driving, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under current law, the more specific offense of "texting while driving" (repealed by this bill) incurs a $20 fine and is a secondary offense, which means that a law-enforcement officer must have cause to stop or detain a driver for some other violation, the primary offense, before issuing a citation for texting while driving, the secondary offense.

Reckless driving; using a handheld personal communications device, penalty.

Del. Robert Brink [D]	Del. David Bulova [D]	Del. Benjamin Cline [R]	Sen. John Cosgrove [R]
Del. Anne Crockett-Stark [R]	Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]	Del. Algie Howell [D]	Del. Chris Jones [R]
Del. Steven Landes [R]	Del. George Loupassi [R]	Del. Daniel Marshall [R]	Del. Donald Merricks [R]
Del. John O'Bannon [R]	Del. Christopher Peace [R]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Harry Purkey [R]
Del. Thomas Rust [R]	Del. James Scott [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. John Cox [R]	Del. James LeMunyon [R]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Ron Villanueva [R]	Sen. Scott Surovell [D]	Del. Tony Wilt [R]	Del. Gordon Helsel [R]
Del. Mark Dudenhefer [R]	Del. Peter Farrell [R]	Del. Keith Hodges [R]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]
Del. Randall Minchew [R]	Del. Michael Webert [R]	Del. Israel O'Quinn [R]	Del. Rob Krupicka [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-01	House	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2013-01-21	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB1907-Anderson) by voice vote
2013-01-15	House	Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2012-12-04	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-12-04	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101224D

HB1907 (Similar To) 2013-04-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
46	2	1078.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	341.20	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	853	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1360
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1360+hil