OK SB1843

Prohibits drivers from operating motor vehicles on public roads while using wireless telecommunication devices to write, send, or read text-based communications.

Defines covered devices as cellular phones, text-messaging devices, personal digital assistants, and similar removable wireless devices, but excludes permanently affixed vehicle components and push-to-talk radio devices.

Establishes exemptions for law enforcement, firefighters, emergency vehicles, medical professionals, and specific safety-related uses including reporting illegal activity, summoning emergency help, preventing injury, GPS navigation, and transit operator dispatching.

Imposes fines of up to $175 for first violation and up to $500 for subsequent violations, with doubled fines if a crash occurs; classifies violations as moving violations enforceable only as secondary offenses.

Becomes effective November 1, 2010.