Virginia House Bill 2435 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-03 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition of using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle to all communications unless the device is specifically designed to allow voice and hands-free operation and the device is being used in that manner. Current law prohibits only the reading of an email or text message and manually entering letters or text in the device as a means of communicating. The bill expands the exemptions to include handheld personal communications devices that are used for navigation or generating audio transmissions when the device is physically mounted to the vehicle. The bill provides that any violation of this prohibition that occurs concurrently with an additional traffic offense, or if the violation results in an accident, may be punishable as reckless driving. Current law provides that a violation of this prohibition is punishable as a traffic infraction only.

Handheld personal communications devices; use while driving, exceptions, penalty.

Del. Randall Minchew [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-03	House	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2017-02-01	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB1834-Anderson) by voice vote
2017-02-01	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2017-01-20	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-20	House	Presented and ordered printed 17103552D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2435
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2435+hil