Adds to existing law to prohibit local authorities from enacting regulations, resolutions, or ordinances that prohibit or restrict the use of a handheld wireless device while driving a moving motor vehicle and to provide that certain regulations, resolutions, or ordinances shall be null, void, and of no force and effect.
MOTOR VEHICLES -- Adds to existing law to prohibit local authorities from enacting regulations, resolutions, or ordinances that prohibit or restrict the use of a handheld wireless device while driving a moving motor vehicle and to provide that certain regulations, resolutions, or ordinances shall be null, void, and of no force and effect.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Many cities have begun to ban handheld cell phone use across the state. One person may drive very responsibly while speaking on a cell phone, while another might be completely careless. This blanketed law is not the solution and punishes those that have been responsible. We have a law on the book that addresses inattentive driving, which sufficiently addresses the irresponsible handheld use. Furthermore, this leaves patchwork in state traffic laws, thus making it confusing while driving from city to city in Idaho. Traffic laws need be consistent statewide.
LATEST ACTION
Bill Previously Held at Desk, Referred to Transportation & Defense
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2019
- Chamber
- house
- Status date
- Jan 31, 2019