NU Online News Service, July 7, 2:25 p.m. EDT

Massachusetts joined the growing number of states to pass a texting while driving ban after Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill into law late last week.

The bill, H. 4795 (http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/186/ht04pdf/ht04795.pdf), states: "No operator of a motor vehicle shall use a mobile telephone, or any handheld device capable of accessing the Internet, to manually compose, send or read an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle."

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