(WHTM) — A new law making it illegal to use a handheld device while driving goes into effect in Pennsylvania today.

Paul Miller's Law, which goes into effect on June 5, 2025, prohibits the use of handheld devices while driving or stopped at a stoplight. Pennsylvanians who violate this law will be fined $50.

The new law is a bittersweet triumph for a Lackawanna County mother.

The fourth of July will be the 15th anniversary of the day Eileen Miller lost her 21-year-old son, Paul, to a distracted tractor-trailer driver.

"I'm extremely emotional today," said Eileen. "[The truck driver] hit [Paul] head-on, killing him instantly."

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Eileen vowed from the morgue to work for change.

"It was a long, hard road, but I'm very grat

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