Adults: Buckle up in back seat starting Sept. 1 (Texas)

Austin American Statesman ^ | 8.19.09 | Corrie MacLaggan

[JRandomFreeper]

HB 55 makes it illegal to use a wireless communication device in a school zone unless the vehicle is stopped

So the cop that wants to call in my driving through a school zone, talking on the phone needs to stop his vehicle before he uses his Motorola police radio, since it's a 'wireless device'. Or is there a loophole for cops?

Whatever happened to FCC federal preemtion? As a radio operator, I'm going to ignore this law.

/johnny

[cva66snipe]

Gotta protect them Insurers corporate profit margins. Didn’t you know that is now the primary function of today’s government? Such has been the case for decades naow and some feel insurers are entitled to do so. Saddly they call themselves conservatives in some cases. Many laws are centered around it now.

[Ro_Thunder]

He’s better than lefty frizzell, or whatever that crackpots name is who was going to have Willie “Up In Smoke” Nelson as Energy Secretary. He’s also better than Kay Bailey Hutchison, by a long shot.

I don’t agree with Gov Goodhair on toll roads, or the illegal invasion, but I certainly don’t agree with those other two, either.

[Nosterrex]

Things are certainly easier to change on a state level than a federal level. If the voters of Texas don’t like the ruling, throw the bums out! I bet that someone running against this law would get many votes.

[AAABEST]

I guess there isn’t a point where they can run out of stupid nanny-statist laws to concoct. As evidenced with this stupidity, they’ll always be able to go “one better.”

[TexasFreeper2009]

I love seat belts and really do believe they saved lives and use mine all the time, but that is not the issue. I just find it offensive that the state thinks it can order me to do so. That is an encroachment on my freedom that I find unacceptable.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

For Acevedo, who came to Austin from California two years ago, it was his first legislative session as a Texas police chief — and he said navigating it was "a real eye-opener."

He approached state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, who filed a bill on the measure.

Note that it was a transplant from the Nanny State of California that got the ball rolling on this one.

[myknowledge]

This is not a problem in my home country Australia. In all states and territories, seat belts are mandatory. A suspended license is the last thing you want.