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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I

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HB 1846 License restrictions for minors; prohibition on use of handheld personal communications devices.

Introduced by: Roxann L. Robinson | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Provisional drivers; use of handheld personal communications devices. Eliminates the provision prohibiting a holder of a provisional driver's license to operate a vehicle while using a wireless communication device. Such provision was specific only to the holder of a provisional license. Under a different current law, all drivers, including those with a provisional driver's license, are prohibited from holding a personal communications device while operating a vehicle.

FULL TEXT

• 01/07/21  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101770D  pdf
• 02/11/21  Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200068D-S1  pdf
• 02/22/21  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1846ER)  pdf
• 03/18/21  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

HISTORY

• 01/07/21  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101770D
• 01/07/21  House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
• 01/12/21  House: Assigned Transportation sub: Transportation Innovations and General Topics
• 01/19/21  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 01/21/21  House: Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N)
• 01/22/21  House: Read first time
• 01/25/21  House: Passed by for the day
• 01/26/21  House: Passed by for the day
• 01/27/21  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/28/21  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/21  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/21  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/29/21  Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
• 02/05/21  Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/11/21  Senate: Reported from Transportation with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
• 02/11/21  Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200068D-S1
• 02/15/21  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/16/21  Senate: Read third time
• 02/16/21  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/16/21  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21200068D-S1
• 02/16/21  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1846S1
• 02/16/21  Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/18/21  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/18/21  House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200068D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/18/21  House: VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/22/21  House: Enrolled
• 02/22/21  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1846ER)
• 02/22/21  Senate: Signed by President
• 02/24/21  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/25/21  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
• 02/25/21  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 03/18/21  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 132 (effective 7/1/21)
• 03/18/21  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132)