Sentences with phrase «states ban cell»

Another 30 states ban cell - phone use by novice drivers, and 10 ban all use of hand - held cell phones while driving.

According to the article on CNN.com about Aaron's story, currently 38 states ban texting for all drivers, while 31 states ban cell phone use by «novice drivers».

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His bill banning the use of handheld cell phones while driving became the first such state law in the entire country in 2000.

The bill adds the controversial cell phone cases to a list of «imitation weapons» that are currently banned under state law.

Sen. Brad Hoylman has asked the state Committee on Open Government whether a Senate rule banning the use of cell phones to take pictures violates the state's open meetings law.

Joel Feldman with the Casey Feldman Foundation notes that New York State already bans both hand held calls and texting while driving, but he says three quarters of all distracted driving injuries and deaths are unrelated to cell phones.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

Scientists in the United States have been trying to find ways around the ban on using federal funds to create stem cells from human embryos.

Not a single U.S. state bans hands - free cell phone talking for most adult drivers.

Ishii worries about countries such as the United States: there, germline editing is not banned but requires government approval, but such restrictions have a history of being circumvented, as in the case of unproven stem - cell treatments.

One of the first analyses of laws banning disposal of electronic waste (e-waste) in municipal landfills has found that state e-waste recycling bans have been mostly ineffective, although California's Cell Phone Recycling Act had a positive impact on cell phone recyclCell Phone Recycling Act had a positive impact on cell phone recyclcell phone recycling.

The state constitutional amendment now protects the right to conduct research to produce embryonic stem cells, while banning cloning to produce a human baby.

Lane plans to sign a petition, expected to begin circulating in South Dakota this week, which will give voters in the 2010 election the chance to overturn a state ban on embryonic stem cell research.

Since 2001, the United States has banned federal funding for research on all but a few lines of embryonic cells.

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Schools, States Review Cell Phone Bans More than a decade after many school systems and states prohibited students from carrying and using pagers and cellular phones in school, state lawmakers and administrators are rethinking their posiStates Review Cell Phone Bans More than a decade after many school systems and states prohibited students from carrying and using pagers and cellular phones in school, state lawmakers and administrators are rethinking their posistates prohibited students from carrying and using pagers and cellular phones in school, state lawmakers and administrators are rethinking their positions.

When cell phones, pagers, and beepers began to spread into the mainstream in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most districts and even states moved to ban them from school grounds.

The discipline policy shifts by a range of governments have yielded real change: In 2014, California became the first state in the nation to ban «willful defiance» suspensions for its youngest students — a category of misconduct that includes refusing to remove a hat, to wear the school uniform, or to turn off a cell phone.

Throughout the year, Secretary LaHood called on states to adopt tough penalties for cell phone use while driving, and DOT released sample legislation lawmakers could use to pass texting bans in their states.

Because of our collective efforts, 32 states have outlawed texting behind the wheel and eight states have banned handheld cell - phone use for all drivers.

Recently the United States put a ban from bringing any electronics larger than a cell phone onto a plane from certain Middle Eastern countries.

With the most recent electronic ban out for many flights traveling from the middle east to the United States, tablets, laptops or any electronics bigger than a cell phone are banned.

Heaven forfend the U.S. be left behind in a post about religion and politics: Obama's move to lift the ban of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research didn't sit well with several U.S. states, which have now passed or are considering legislation to outlaw some forms of the work.

Another possible use is when you need to dictate something while driving (assuming your state does not ban cell phones while driving).

All of these examples are cause for heightened alert as more and more states and municipalities have banned cell phone use while driving.

At the same time, given the state's tough ban on cell phone use while driving, a case could also be made against the offending driver.

Although new laws have been implemented in nearly every state of the U.S. which ban the use of cell phones while driving, people continue to put themselves, and others, at risk when they decided to text and drive or carry on a conversation while navigating through congested roadways.

In 2016, the Massachusetts state Senate passed a hands - free driving law, which would have banned handheld cell phone use by drivers and restricted them to talking on the phone by hands - free technology such as Bluetooth devices.

More states have banned the use of cell phones by bus drivers and minors, and several have passed laws prohibiting texting while driving.

There have been laws made by federal and state legislatures banning cell phone use while behind the wheel of a commercial truck.

Other laws include a ban on all handheld cell phone use (ten states and D.C.), and handheld cell phone use by school bus drivers (nineteen states and D.C.) No state has a ban on all cell phone use, including hands - free devices, although the NTSB recommended such a ban last year.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), drivers in the state of Indiana are not banned from using hand - held cell phones behind the wheel, but they are banned from text messaging.

Eight states have banned all use of (hand held) cell phones while driving.

Drivers have become increasingly aware of the dangers involved in distracted driving, largely thanks to the fact that most states have strict laws banning cell phone use, which is the most common driving distraction.

... has become the first state to pass a cell phone ban while driving.

In the United States, cell phone usage (texting or talking) is responsible for 30,000 motor vehicle related injuries each year and 11 deaths each day In the state of California, the law bans all handheld devices, texting for all drivers, and all cell phone usage (even hands free) for driver's under the age of 18.

Distraction has found to be the main cause of road accidents and some states banned drivers from using cell phones while driving.

Within a few years of their existence, most states banned handheld cell phone use and texting.

In announcing their bills, Ackerman and Corzine cited a recent poll among New York state registered voters that 87 percent, including 85 percent of cell phone owners, favor banning cell phone use by drivers.