(Des Moines, IA) — It would be illegal to use a hand-held smart phone while driving under a bill that’s being proposed again in the Iowa House.
Susan Cameron Daemon (DAY-mun) is a lobbyist with the Iowa Sheriffs and Deputies Association — a group that’s been supporting a “hands-free” law for years. She says Iowa is one of the few states that does not have this law, “and we know that it works and saves lives.”
Michael Triplett, a lobbyist for the Alliance for Automobile Innovation, says the companies developed the technology in dashboards that now makes hands-free driving while talking on a cell signal possible.
The Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau first proposed a ban on handling a cell phone while driving in 2015, but the bill has repeatedly failed to pass the legislature.
Minnesota passed its hands-free driving law in 2019.
