Virginia House Bill 377 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-13 - Left in Transportation
Pending: House Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Holding handheld personal communications devices while Holding handheld personal communications devices while driving a motor vehicle. Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle. Current law prohibits (i) the reading of any email or text message and manually entering letters or text in such a device as a means of communicating and (ii) holding a personal communications device while driving in a work zone. The bill expands the exemptions to include handheld personal communications devices that are being held and used (a) as an amateur radio or a citizens band radio or (b) for official Department of Transportation or traffic incident management services. This bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021. This bill was

Handheld personal communications devices; holding devices while driving a motor vehicle.

Del. Rodney Willett [D]

2020-02-13 - House - House: Incorporated by Transportation (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-13	House	Left in Transportation
2020-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB874-Bourne) by voice vote
2020-01-15	House	Assigned Transportation sub: Motor Vehicles
2020-01-02	House	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2020-01-02	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102351D

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?201+sum+HB377
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB377+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H19V0117+HB0377