NOTES: The District of Columbia has a Texting and Hand-Held Ban, Guam has a Texting Ban and the Virgin Islands have a Hand-Held Ban. Partial bans refer to the states that have laws prohibiting certain groups of drivers from using a hand-held device or texting behind the wheel. Often, these bans are directed towards novice or bus drivers. With the exception of Michigan, New Hampshire, and Utah, all states with a texting ban also have a partial hand-held cell phone usage ban in place. New Mexico’s hand-held ban is for drivers of within state vehicles and novice drivers.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, State Laws, available at http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/state-laws.html, as of December 2012.