text: In 47 states texting while driving is illegal, but only few have made it illegal to have your phone in your hand or on you body while driving. The state of Georgia, July 4th, when they in-forced that law they racked up more that 35,000+ tickets in one day and that says a lot. If every state did the same, they would most likely accumulate one million 500 thousand tickets in one day. That's a lot of lives on the line, but people act as if they are masters of texting and driving. Little do they know.