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SB 874 Mobile telephone and other wireless electronic devices; use of hands-free accessory while driving.
Introduced by: Patricia S. Ticer | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Use of mobile telephone and other wireless electronic devices while driving. Provides that, with certain exceptions, no person may use a mobile telephone or other wireless electronic telecommunications device while operating a moving motor vehicle on any public highway in the Commonwealth unless such mobile telephone or other wireless electronic telecommunications device is equipped with a hands-free accessory. This bill incorporates SB 966.
FULL TEXT
- 12/29/08 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 098241336 pdf
- 01/23/09 Senate: Committee substitute printed 093855336-S1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/29/08 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 098241336
- 12/29/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/22/09 Senate: Reported from Transportation with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 01/23/09 Senate: Committee substitute printed 093855336-S1
- 01/26/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/09 Senate: Read second time
- 01/27/09 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/27/09 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 093855336-S1
- 01/27/09 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB874S1
- 01/28/09 Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/09 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 01/28/09 Senate: Amendments by Senator Cuccinelli rejected
- 01/28/09 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB874S1
- 01/28/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/09 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 01/28/09 Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 02/04/09 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N 2-A)