9/25/03-A measure that would require drivers to keep their hands off cell phones failed to gain passage before lawmakers adjourned for the year.
LB501, sponsored by Sen. Jim Cudaback, R-Riverdale, prohibited hand-held cell phone use while driving. Talking on a phone equipped with a “hands-free” device would still have been permitted.
Under the bill, a driver stopped for using a hand-held phone could be fined up to $100. It would exempt emergency calls.
The bill was in the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee when the session ended May 30.