This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
Amend CSHB 80 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 4, strike lines 18 through 22 and substitute the following:
(e) This section preempts all local ordinances, rules, or other regulations adopted by a political subdivision relating to the use of a portable wireless communication device by the operator of a motor vehicle to read, write, or send a text-based communication.
(f) A political subdivision may by ordinance, rule, or other regulation prohibit or regulate the use of a portable wireless communication device, other than to read, write, or send a text-based communication, while operating a motor vehicle.
(2) Reletter subsequent subsections of added Section 545.4251, Transportation Code, accordingly.