{"id":22987,"date":"2013-05-02T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2013-05-02T17:15:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:15:44","slug":"florida-lawmakers-pass-texting-while-driving-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/05\/florida-lawmakers-pass-texting-while-driving-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Lawmakers Pass <br>Texting-While-Driving Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22988\" title=\"texting\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/texting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Florida lawmakers have passed a statewide ban on texting while driving.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed a bill (SB 52) on Thursday by 39-1. Republican Sen. Joe Negron of Stuart was the only no vote.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved it earlier this week but added a provision allowing police to use drivers&#8217; mobile phone records against them only when texting causes a crash resulting in death or personal injury. That change required it to come back to the Senate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bill sponsor Sen. Nancy Detert said she decided &#8220;not to let the perfect get in the way of the possible&#8221; and agreed to the late amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now goes to Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s desk. Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia already have texting-while-driving bans for all drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida lawmakers have passed a statewide ban on texting while driving. The Senate passed a bill (SB 52) on Thursday by 39-1. Republican Sen. Joe Negron of Stuart was the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}