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2021 SESSION
SB 1335 Learner's permits; use of personal communication devices.
Introduced by: Richard H. Stuart | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Learner's permits; use of personal communications device. Eliminates the provision prohibiting a holder of a learner's permit to operate a vehicle while using a wireless communication device. Such provision was specific only to the holder of a learner's permit. Under a different current law, all drivers, including those with a learner's permit, are prohibited from holding a personal communications device while operating a vehicle.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100741D pdf | impact statement
- 01/26/21 Senate: Floor substitute printed 21103709D-S1 (Stuart) pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100741D
- 01/12/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/21/21 Senate: Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/21 Senate: Read second time
- 01/26/21 Senate: Floor substitute printed 21103709D-S1 (Stuart)
- 01/26/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/26/21 Senate: Substitute by Senator Stuart agreed to 21103709D-S1
- 01/26/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1335S1
- 01/27/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/02/21 House: Read first time
- 02/02/21 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote