Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving

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Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving.

A House panel heard testimony Monday on three bills that would make it an infraction for a driver to read or send text messages on the road.

Missouri currently bans people younger than 22 from texting while driving.