The state Senate today passed a bill that will make it a lot more expensive to illegally use a cellphone or to text while driving — or while bicycling.

The legislation, Senate Bill 28 by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, now goes to Gov. Jerry Brown, who hasn’t said whether he’ll sign the measure.

The bill, approved 23-13 by the Senate and 51-21 on July 14 by the Assembly, would raise the base fine of a driver’s first violation to $50 (now $20), which with fees would total about $300 a ticket in Sonoma County, and the base fine for subsequent violations to $100 (now $50), which with fees would be about $500. The bill also would add a penalty point on motorists’ driving records for repeat violations.

The measure also would for the first time apply the state’s cellphone and anti-texting laws to bicyclists, but bicyclists would only pay $20 total for a first offense and $50 total for subsequent and would not receive points on their driving record.

And $10 from each fine would be put into a newly created state Distracted Driver Education Fund to finance programs to publicize the dangers of cellphone use and texting while driving.

The bill is similar to one Simitian introduced in the last legislative session, where it also passed the Senate but got killed in the Assembly.