CHAPTER NUMBER: 544 
File Code: Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Forehand and Frosh
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Motor Vehicles - Learners'
 Permits and Provisional Licenses - Prohibition on Use of
 a  Wireless Communication
  Device
While Driving
 
Prohibiting the holder of a learner's instructional permit or
provisional driver's license from using specified types of wireless
communication devices while operating a motor vehicle; providing for
specified exceptions; defining terms; authorizing a police officer to
enforce the Act only as a secondary action; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/14
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 - 1/26
 - Hearing 2/8 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/15
 
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
 - 3/16
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -      Committee Amendment Adopted
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted (33-12)
 -      Floor Committee Amendment (Judicial Proceedings)
 -      Laid Over (Senator Stoltzfus) Adopted
 - 3/17
 - Floor Committee Amendment (Judicial Proceedings) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Klausmeier)
 -      Special Order 3/18 (Senator Pipkin) Adopted
 - 3/18
 - Floor Amendment (Senator Klausmeier) Withdrawn
 -      Substitute Floor Amendment (Senator Klausmeier)
 -      Special Order later today (Senator Frosh) Adopted
 -      Substitute Floor Amendment (Senator Klausmeier) Withdrawn
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Klausmeier) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (15-31)
 -      Special Order 3-21 (Senator Schrader) Adopted
 - 3/19
 - Floor Amendment (Senator Schrader) Rejected
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/21
 - Third Reading Passed (27-17)
 - 4/7
 - Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
 -      Senate Requests House Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Forehand, Frosh, and Green
 - 4/8
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (29-18)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
House Action
- 3/22
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 3/28
 - Hearing 4/5 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/7
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (130-1)
 - 4/7
 - House Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Malone, Cluster, and Montgomery
 - 4/8
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (134-1)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/26
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 544
 
Sponsored by:
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
 - Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMPUTERS -see also- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC GOVMNT.
 - DRIVERS' LICENSES
 - HEARINGS
 - LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; YOUTH
 - MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED; AMBULANCES; BUSES; etc.
 - MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION
 - PENALTIES
 - SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS -see also- TELEPHONES
 - TELEPHONES
 - TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
 
Bill affects the following Statute:
-   Transportation
 - (
 21-1123 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
 SENATE
- Number: 013826/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 18, 2005      at:
12:03 p.m.     Status: Withdrawn
 - Number: 013826/03 (PDF)     Offered on: March 18, 2005      at:
11:24 a.m.     Status: Special Ordered
 - Number: 013826/04 (PDF)     Offered on: March 18, 2005      at:
11:52 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 103724/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 21, 2005      at:
8:30 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 458970/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 17, 2005      at:
10:38 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 608070/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 16, 2005      at:
10:23 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 893321/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 18, 2005      at:
11:53 a.m.     Status: Rejected
 
House 
- Number: 440212/01 (PDF)     Offered on: April 8, 2005       at:
11:49 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Conference Committee Documents (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
 
- Report Number: 863624/1  (PDF)     Offered on: April 11, 2005      at:
6:32 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Amendment Number: 543023/1  (PDF)     Offered on: April 11, 2005      at:
6:33 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- March 16, 2005: Favorable with Amendments Adopted  (33-12)
 - March 18, 2005: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {893321/1 Rejected  (15-31)
 - March 19, 2005: Floor Amendment (Schrader) {103724/1 Rejected  (17-30)
 - March 21, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (27-17)
 - April 8, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (29-18)
 
House 
- April 4, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (130-1)
 - April 8, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (134-1)