A state Senate panel yesterday voted to enact
This year Farley invoked the name of fallen DPS officer Tim Huffman, killed last year while investigating an accident when a truck driver reading his Facebook page hit his patrol vehicle.
Sen. John Kavanagh said he supports the idea.
“Even though I would vote for a bill which would ban texting and reading texts, I know that would never pass this Legislature at this time. But I did want to see something go through. And I think the most dangerous part of the texting is entering the text,” Kavanagh said
The panel unanimously approved a bill that would impose a $100 fine for a first texting and driving offense. The fine jumps to $1,000 if a deadly crash occurs.
The bill, as amended, would not ban what a video camera in the cab shows the truck driver was doing when he hit Huffman.