Virginia Senate Bill 944 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-23 - Incorporated by Transportation
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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.

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

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2020-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Transportation (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-23	Senate	Incorporated by Transportation
2020-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2020-01-13	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 20104384D

SB160 (Similar To) 2020-03-31 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)

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+SB944
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB944+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S11V0018+SB0944