Virginia House Bill 461 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 8 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-11 - Continued to 2017 in Transportation by voice vote
Pending: House Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition on manually entering multiple letters or text in a handheld communications device while operating a motor vehicle to also prohibit the manual selection of multiple icons and removes the condition that such manual entry is prohibited only if performed as a means of communicating with another person. The bill prohibits the operator of a motor vehicle from reading any information displayed on the device; current law prohibits reading an email or text message. The bill provides that this prohibition does not apply to reading any information displayed through the use of a global position system for the purposes of navigation. The bill eliminates the current exemption from the prohibition on using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle when the vehicle is stopped or not moving; the current exemption from the prohibition when the vehicle is parked is not affected.

Handheld personal communications devices; use while driving, penalty.

Del. Richard Anderson [R]	Del. Gordon Helsel [R]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]
Del. Sam Rasoul [D]

2016-02-08 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) (Y: 6 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-11	House	Continued to 2017 in Transportation by voice vote
2016-02-08	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
2016-01-29	House	Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1
2016-01-15	House	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2016-01-15	House	Referred from Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
2016-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
2016-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100911D

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?161+sum+HB461
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB461+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H1901V0028+HB0461