TRAFFIC/VIOLATIONS: Provides with respect to the use of a wireless telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
House Passage
May 2019
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 27, 2019
Last action May 29, 2019
Floor votes · House May 29, 2019
How they voted
50–30
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 86
May 29, 2019
D
Democratic31
61% Nay
I
Independent2
100% Yea
R
Republican53
73% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Amendments
1
May 29, 2019
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
May 29, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 61, nays 37. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 29, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments (13-2).
lower
Apr 8, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
Mar 27, 2019
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mike Huval
RRepublican
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