Increasing the scheduled fine for writing, sending, or viewing an electronic message while driving on a highway within two hundred feet of a school

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
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   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2020
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   Done: House committeeFebruary 19, 2020
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   Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

Under current law, a person who writes, sends, or views an electronic message while driving in violation of Code section 321.276 is subject to a scheduled fine of $30. This bill provides that a person who writes, sends, or views an electronic message while driving in violation of Code section 321.276 within a school district is subject to a scheduled fine of $60. “School district” is defined in Code section 321.1(70) as the territory contiguous to and including a highway for a distance of 200 feet in either direction from a schoolhouse in a city. Under Code section 321.285, the speed limit in a school district is miles per hour, and a school district must be marked by distinctive signs.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named February 13, 2020. On February 18, 2020 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Jon Thorup R
• Rep. Dean Fisher REmail
• Rep. Monica Kurth DEmail

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