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March 11, 2015
OLYMPIA — The Washington Senate has voted to extend the state's ban on cellphone use while driving to cover the range of functions a smartphone can now serve — like using Twitter and Facebook.
Lawmakers in in 2008 could only conceive of two cellphone uses dangerous enough to ban drivers from: hand-held phone calls and texting. But the Senate on Tuesday passed a far broader list of banned activities by a bipartisan 35-14 margin.
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