HB1606
Handheld personal communications devices; use of devices in highway work zones.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) vehicle for an operator of a vehicle who activates, deactivates, or initiates a factory-installed feature or function on the vehicle. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/03/2017 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100696D
- 01/03/2017 - House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/17/2017 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1606)
- 01/26/2017 - House: Reported from Transportation with amendments (19-Y 3-N)
- 01/27/2017 - House: Read first time
- 01/30/2017 - House: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/2017 - House: Read second time
- 01/31/2017 - House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/31/2017 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1606E
- 01/31/2017 - House: Printed as engrossed 17100696D-E
- 02/01/2017 - House: Read third time and passed House (80-Y 18-N)
- 02/01/2017 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (80-Y 18-N)
- 02/02/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/2017 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/15/2017 - Senate: Reported from Transportation with amendment (9-Y 4-N)
- 02/17/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Motion to reconsider rerefer to Courts of Justice agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Previous question ordered (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (24-Y 16-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/20/2017 - Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 02/21/2017 - Senate: Left in Courts of Justice
