Distracted Driving an 'Epidemic,' Engel Says, Explaining Legislation
House Democrats unveiled more details of the Distracted Driving Prevention Act (HR-2154), reintroduced last week (see 1505010049). “The legislation seeks to create new safety benchmarks for states looking to obtain grant funding, while simultaneously lowering administrative barriers to grant money,”…
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said a Monday news release from Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., its sponsor. To be eligible for distracted driving grants, states will need to have passed laws that forbid texting and using handheld cellphones while driving, the news release said. The legislation would compel the Department of Transportation to form a research program to consider the issue and the FCC to weigh in with Congress on what it can do to minimize distracted driving. "Distracted driving has become an epidemic, and its consequences can often be fatal,” Engel said in a statement.