Bill targeting chatty drivers resurfaces

Annapolis lawmakers again will consider a bill telling Maryland drivers to hang up their cell phones ?and stop reading, writing and grooming themselves ? when behind the wheel.

Baltimore County legislators Sen. Norman Stone, D-District 6, and Del. John Olszewski Jr., D-District 6, are sponsoring a “distracted drivers” bill in the Senate and House, respectively, in part as tribute to the late Del. John Arnick. The Democrat from Dundalk, who died of lung cancer in June, lobbied for motor safety and unsuccessfully introduced similar bills every year since 1999.