TEXTING WHILE DRIVING BILL

The Florida Legislature has passed a texting-while-driving bill that allows law enforcement to pull over drivers for texting and would make texting while driving a primary offense instead of a secondary offense and requires drivers to go totally hands free when operating wireless communications devices in school zones and in construction zones when workers are present. Texting while driving already is illegal in Florida but officers only can cite someone for the infraction if that person is pulled over for another offense.

 

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