{MIDDAYS WITH JAZZY MCBEE} GOV. DEAL SIGNS NEW HANDS-FREE DISTRACTED DRIVING BILL INTO LAW

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Governor Nathan Deal traveled over the state to sign various bills into law on Wednesday. The hand-free law will impact every driver in the state.

‘This is our effort to make sure that these tragedies are not going to occur needlessly again” Deal said in a bill signing ceremony in Statesboro. Starting July 1, you will no longer be able to hold your phone in your hand while driving. You will have to use some kind of hands-free device.

Deal chose to sign the bill in Statesboro, because it’s home to Georgia Southern University. Thats where five nursing students were killed in a highway crash.

The families of those victims were on hand for the bill signing as well. Deal began to get emotional as he signed the bill.

“It is aim to prevent the types of tragic and avoidable deaths that occured on that stretch of I-16 on that horrible day in April of 2015,” Deal said. “It’s time, and this legislation is Georgia’s way of saying, “Today is the day that we say no more”