Title: Wireless Communications Devices

Summary: Revising legislative intent to authorize law enforcement officers to stop motor vehicles and issue citations as a primary offense to persons who are texting while driving; deleting the requirement that specified provisions be enforced as a secondary action by a law enforcement agency, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to wireless communications devices; amending s. 316.305, F.S.; revising legislative intent to authorize law enforcement officers to stop motor vehicles and issue citations as a primary offense to persons who are texting while driving; deleting the requirement that specified provisions be enforced as a secondary action by a law enforcement agency; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) and subsection (5) of section 316.305, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 316.305 Wireless communications devices; prohibition.  (2) It is the intent of the Legislature to: (d) Authorize law enforcement officers to stop motor vehicles and issue citations as a primary secondary offense to persons who are texting while driving. (5) Enforcement of this section by state or local law enforcement agencies must be accomplished only as a secondary action when an operator of a motor vehicle has been detained for a suspected violation of another provision of this chapter, chapter 320, or chapter 322. Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2016.