Texting While Driving Ban Bill Gets Another Run at Texas Capitol
Texas lawmakers in a transportation committee say they want to make 2015 the year Texas bans texting and driving statewide.
Lawmakers did approve a ban in the past, but it didn’t become the law. At a public hearing of the House Transportation Committee, the bill’s author, State Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, pointed out that more than 40 states have passed a ban on texting and driving, and so have nearly 40 cities in Texas.
Craddick said in 2013, texting-related crashes cost the state more than $1 billion because of medical care and increased insurance premiums, for example.
Some people who spoke in favor of the bill had more personal reasons for their support.
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