First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0470.01 Jery Payne           SENATE BILL 11-014
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Jahn,
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Transportation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the use of a video display while driving a motor
            vehicle.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Currently, it is illegal to have a screen that receives a television
       broadcast at any point forward of the driver's seat or visible to the driver. 
       The bill allows the screen to be forward of the driver's seat so long as
       visual entertainment is not visible to the driver and clarifies that it is the
       display of video programming, not the reception of television, that
       triggers the prohibition.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  42-4-201 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended to read:
            42-4-201.  Obstruction of view or driving mechanism -
       hazardous situation.  (3)  No A person shall not drive any a motor
       vehicle equipped with any television viewer, screen, or other means of
       visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor
       vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat or which is a
       video display visible to the driver. while operating the motor vehicle. 
       The provisions of This subsection (3) shall not be interpreted to does not
       prohibit the usage of any a computer, data terminal, or other similar
       device in a motor vehicle so long as the computer, terminal, or
       device is not used to display visual entertainment to the driver
       while the motor vehicle is in motion.
            SECTION 2.  Effective date - applicability.  This act shall take
       effect July 1, 2011, and shall apply to offenses committed on or after said
       date.
            SECTION 3.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.