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The Virginia Senate has voted 33 to 6 and the House voted 88 to 9 to approve House Bill 1876 which would ban motorists from typing or reading cell phone text messages while driving.
The text of the bill reads, “Prohibits operation of a motor vehicle, on the highways in the Commonwealth while using any handheld personal communications device to manually enter multiple letters or text or to read a text message. This bill provides exemptions for the use of global positioning systems (GPS), reading caller identification information, and using a wireless telecommunications device to report an emergency. The provisions of this bill do not apply to operators of emergency vehicles.”
Drivers found texting could be punished by a $20 fine for the first offense and $50 for a second or subsequent offense. Since texting will be a secondary offense, motorists cannot be stopped solely for texting while driving. They would have to be pulled over for some other offense before a law enforcement officer could cite them.
Now it is up to Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to approve the bill.
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