Handheld personal communications devices; use of devices in highway work zones, penalty.

Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, with certain exceptions. The bill provides that a violation is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Current law prohibits only the reading of an email or text message on the device and manually entering letters or text in the device as a means of communicating, with the same exceptions.