WV SB209 | 2011 | Regular Session

Status

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-19 - To Transportation and Infrastructure
Pending: Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

The purpose of this bill is to create the misdemeanor offense of operating a motor vehicle while writing, sending or reading a text message by means of a wireless communications device. This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

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Title

Creating misdemeanor offense of operating motor vehicle while texting

Sponsors


History

DateChamberAction
2011-01-19 To Transportation and Infrastructure
2011-01-19 Introduced in Senate
2011-01-19 To Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary
2011-01-19 Filed for introduction

Same As/Similar To

HB2555 (Same As) 2011-03-11 - Senate requests House to concur

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
17C1415New CodeSee Bill Text

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