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2017 SESSION
HB 1606 Handheld personal communications devices; use of devices in highway work zones.
Introduced by: Ronald A. Villanueva | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Use of handheld personal communications devices in highway work zones. Prohibits any person from texting or otherwise using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, defined in the bill, when workers are present. The bill adds an exemption to the prohibition against using a handheld personal communications device in a moving motor vehicle for an operator of a vehicle who activates, deactivates, or initiates a factory-installed feature or function on the vehicle.
FULL TEXT
- 01/03/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100696D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/17 House: Printed as engrossed 17100696D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/03/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100696D
- 01/03/17 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/26/17 House: Reported from Transportation with amendments (19-Y 3-N)
- 01/27/17 House: Read first time
- 01/30/17 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/17 House: Read second time
- 01/31/17 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/31/17 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1606E
- 01/31/17 House: Printed as engrossed 17100696D-E
- 02/01/17 House: Read third time and passed House (80-Y 18-N)
- 02/01/17 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (80-Y 18-N)
- 02/02/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/15/17 Senate: Reported from Transportation with amendment (9-Y 4-N)
- 02/17/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/17 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 02/20/17 Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 02/20/17 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/20/17 Senate: Motion to reconsider rerefer to Courts of Justice agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Previous question ordered (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (24-Y 16-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 02/21/17 Senate: Left in Courts of Justice