Texas does not have a statewide ban on texting while driving yet.  It doesn’t stop some cities from considering a measure to make their local roads safer.
The College Station City Council has been exploring the possibility of coming up with a ban on texting while driving. 
For Police Chief Jeff Capps, it’s the right thing to [...]

Some Idaho lawmakers are persistent men.  Even though a bill to ban texting while driving did not go through during last year’s legislative session, they are prepared to come up with a new and improved proposition in 2011. 
Sen. John McGee was one of the sponsors for SB 1352, a bill that was seeking to ban [...]

A distracted driving bill is scheduled to be studied this fall in Alberta, but in the meantime, a Calgary judge found a way to punish a young man for texting while driving. 
Provincial court Judge Les Grieve lectured handed the 21-year-old man the maximum $2,000 fine for careless driving under the current Traffic Safety Act.   On [...]

In the last two years, the Arizona Senate has tried to ban text messages while driving, but each time a bill was presented, it was defeated.  It doesn’t stop cities from taking measures in their own hands 
After Phoenix, the Glendale Police Department is asking the city council to come up with an ordinance to prohibit [...]

According to auto club AAA, texting while driving is getting worse on California’s roads.
In their most recent study, AAA compared 7 locations in Southern California before and after the law went into effect.  Of the 4,000 Orange County cars sampled, it was found that 2.7% of all drivers are texting while driving.  That’s almost twice [...]

It’s been a year since the state of Virginia has banned texting while driving, but there doesn’t seem to be much progress among drivers to stop their dangerous habit.  To raise awareness on the issue, the Fairfax County Police Department is launching a campaign aimed at keeping motorists from texting while driving.
Since the beginning of [...]

Another Ohio city has decided to ban texting while driving before the state can come up with a legislation.  After Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland, among others, Cincinnati is the latest city to ban texting while driving 
In an 8-1 vote, the Cincinnati City Council approved an ordinance banning the sending, reading or writing of text messages [...]

New Brunswick is one of the last two provinces with Alberta not to have put a ban on texting while driving.  That may change after the upcoming elections on September 27.
Current Prime Minister Shawn Graham of the New Brunswick Liberal Party promised last week that a liberal government would ban the use of cell phones [...]

Lawmakers in Florida may not have agreed on a bill to ban texting while driving in the last Legislative session, but the Florida Highway Patrol will take the matter in its own hand. 
In association with Verizon Wireless, the Florida Highway Patrol announced the launch of the “Danger Thumbs” campaign to make the state’s roads safer [...]

Since September1, 2009, a new law was enacted in Texas to prohibit the use of cell phones and texting while driving in school zones.  A year later, motorists in the Plano area will have no excuse if they are caught texting while driving.
The Plano Police Department is making it a priority as the school year [...]