Bill Text: IL HB0349 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Creates the offense of distracted driving, which a person commits by operating a motor vehicle in violation of a law or ordinance governing the movement of vehicles while also engaging in certain activities. Provides that a law enforcement officer may charge a person with distracted driving if the officer (i) has stopped the person for any violation of a law or ordinance governing the movement of vehicles and (ii) determines that the person was driving while distracted. Specifies that distracted driving may not be recorded on a person's driving record, but requires a person who has committed distracted driving to pay an additional fine equivalent to the amount of the fine for the underlying offense that he or she committed.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0349 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0349-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0349 Introduced 1/27/2009, by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-503.5 new
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Creates the offense of distracted driving, which a person commits by operating a motor vehicle in violation of a law or ordinance governing the movement of vehicles while also engaging in certain activities. Provides that a law enforcement officer may charge a person with distracted driving if the officer (i) has stopped the person for any violation of a law or ordinance governing the movement of vehicles and (ii) determines that the person was driving while distracted. Specifies that distracted driving may not be recorded on a person's driving record, but requires a person who has committed distracted driving to pay an additional fine equivalent to the amount of the fine for the underlying offense that he or she committed.
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AN ACT concerning vehicles.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by adding
Section 11-503.5 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-503.5 new)
Sec. 11-503.5. Distracted driving.
(a) A person commits distracted driving when he or she
operates a motor vehicle while (i) engaging in text messaging,
(ii) reading a newspaper, book, magazine, or map, (iii) engaged
in an act of personal grooming, and the operation of the motor
vehicle is in violation of a law or ordinance governing the
movement of vehicles.
(b) A law enforcement officer may charge a person with
distracted driving under this Section if the officer has
stopped the person for any violation of a law or ordinance
governing the movement of vehicles and if the officer
determines that the driver was driving while distracted;
however, the offense of distracted driving is not deemed to be
a violation of a law or ordinance governing the movement of
vehicles and may not be recorded on the driving record of the
driver of the vehicle.
(c) Any person found in violation of subsection (a) of this

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Section is subject to an additional fine equivalent to the
amount of the fine for the underlying offense that he or she
committed.