Nearly half the country – 23 states – have laws on the books that currently ban texting while driving. Six others (including the great state of California) have laws on the books now that will get you busted for speaking on a cellphone while driving.
But though there was much talk before the session began this year to have Florida enact a statute of some sort to deal with texting-while-driving, a proposal that would do just that died Monday in the Florida House, when the chair of the House Finance & Tax Council, Fort Lauderdale Republican Ellyn Bogdanoff, said she thought the proposed law was "intellectually dishonest."
Huh?
This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2010.