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Bill Prohibiting Use of Hand-Held Devices While Driving Signed Into Law by Shapiro (www.politicspa.com)

submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/pennsylvania@lemmy.world

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[–] Mathprogrammer1@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How was this not a law? Does this mean it's legal in other states?

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Just an update I heard on the news this morning: texting was already banned. This expands it to anyone holding their phone. 28 states have phone bans in place.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I imagine that means it is legal, yes. I think maybe some other phone laws are specific to texting and this might be slightly more broad