Boise (670 KBOI News) – A bill which would have made using a hand-held cellphone or iPad illegal while driving is dead for the 2018 session.

The Idaho Senate voted 22-13 to kill Senate Bill 1283, which would have made it illegal to talk on a cellphone while holding it to your ear, or to use a video player while driving.

According to the Spokesman-Review, Senator Dan Foreman of Moscow said he opposed the bill because Idahoans wouldn’t obey it, saying you could pass laws on cellphone use while driving,”’til the cows come home”, and Idahoans would continue to talk on the phone while driving.

The bill’s sponsor, Senator Marv Hagedorn of Meridian, said it would have repealed the state’s ban on texting while driving, which he says has been nearly impossible to enforce.

Senator Steve Vick of Dalton Gardens called the bill another example of government overreach.