Posted on 05/30/2011 10:20:40 AM PDT by deport
ShareBan on texting while driving goes to Perry
The Texas Senate and House on Sunday approved a final version of a bill that will ban drivers from reading, writing or sending a text or e-mail while they are driving, among other things.
“Being on the phone is a distraction, but nothing compares to texting,” said state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, the Senate sponsor of the legislation. “It’s a dangerous practice.”
She added the texting ban to a bill that extends the firearms proficiency certification period for retired federal peace officers.
The Senate vote on the final version of the bill was 28-3.
In the House, the final vote was 80-61. Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, said it is 20 times more dangerous to text while driving than to drive drunk.
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Lawmakers approve bill banning texting while driving
AP via KFDM TV
May 30, 2011 8:49 AM
Scott Lawrence
Lawmakers late Sunday approved the ban on texting while driving as a midnight deadline approached. Drivers caught texting or emailing on their phones can be fined upward of $200.....
San Antonio and El Paso already have laws forbidding texting while driving, and at least 30 other states have enacted similar statewide bans.
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“She added the texting ban to a bill that extends the firearms proficiency certification period for retired federal peace officers.”
Why do we allow crap like this? What does texting while driving have to do with firearms proficiency of retired feds?
This practice of tacking on totally unrelated crap to bills has to be stopped.
We are NOT a nation of laws. We are a nation of way to damn many laws.
Exactly. But this career Texas State Senator Judy Zaffarini is dug in like an Alabama tick!
Go get ‘em Perry!
Perry has now signed the sonogram and explanation before abortion bill and the picture ID before voting bill.
Perry has signed a lot of good bills, but I’m really concerned about his inner nanny-stater...a few years ago he issued an executive order requiring 11- and 12-year-olds to have the Gardasil vaccine for sexually transmitted cervical cancers as a condition of attending public school. Parents had to “opt out,” not “opt in.” This is a vaccine for something no one would catch in the classroom, and he made it a lot more difficult for parents to have control over the situation (i.e., by making parents affirmatively “opt out”). The state legislature later overturned Perry’s executive order.
Perry is a weasel but he’s our weasel. Maybe we could get fortunate enough to share him with the other 56 states and allow Texas to elect another governor.
The picture ID bill is good, but a rather “weak sister” effort to do something about illegal immigration. Perry is a master of the RINO Kabuki Theater that immigration politics in Texas.
I have no respect for the man. This session is where he could have pushed for a work place immigration bill like the Arizona law that SCOTUS just upheld. Perry could not even get the bill passed to make sanctuary city policies illegal.
Perry could have pushed a SB1070 type bill too, but Jan Brewer borrowed his nuts and she hasn’t returned them.
There was a sign at one of our local churches, it said:
If you love God, honk;
If you want to meet him, text.
That kinda lays it all out, right there.
Texas RINO Republicans, except for Leo Berman and Debbie Riddle, have no will to pass a real anti-illegal immigration
bill in Texas.
If they did they would not be able to attend all the wine and cheese receptions with their illegal loving and cheap labor addicted big business campaign donors.
Perry will point to the picture ID bill and hoot about how he got this done. He doesn’t care if illegals can vote or not as long as one cleans his toilet and cuts his grass.
You people who think you can multi-task while driving need your license revoked.
Love it. And right to the point at that.
Ditto's.
His accomplishments have far outweighed this.
He knows he shouldn’t have pushed the vaccine or the Hwy thing. They ALL make mistakes.
If this is the worst he’s done, I can live with that.
I told my Wife I wag my finger at people I see texting and driving to admonish them.
Now I can use my long finger.
They passed an anti-texting/driving law in Georgia last year. Still see it all the time.
Correct but it is a disease that could be caught if a teen was raped by an illegal alien.
Having you been admonishing them? :)
This is the sort of thing where public involvement will be necessary.
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