School bus drivers-cell phone use.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0535

SENATE FILE
NO.

SF0116

School bus drivers-cell phone use.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Johnson and Representative(s) Goggles

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
operation of motor vehicles; prohibiting use of cell phones by persons operating school district buses; providing exceptions; providing penalties; providing a definition;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 31
‑
5
‑
238 is created to read:
31-5-238.

Use
of cell phones by school bus drivers prohibited.

(a)

N
o person shall use a cellular telephone while operating a
school bus for a
school district
organized
pursuant
to W.S. 21
‑
3
‑
101, et seq. unless the cellular
telephone is specifically designed to allow hands-free operation and is used in a hands-free manner.

(b)

This section shall not apply to
a
person who is occupying a legally parked
school bus or to a
person who is specifically contacting an emergency services agency to inform that agency of an emergency.

(c)

A person convicted of violating this section
is

guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by
a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00)
,
imprisonment for not
more than
thirty (30) days, or both.

(
d
)

As used in this section,
"c
ellular telephone"
means
a mobile communication device that uses short-wave analog or digital radio transmissions between the device and a transmitter to permit wireless communications to and from the user of the device.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2013.

(END)

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