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House education committee introduces bill asking districts to adopt local cell‑phone policies
Summary
The Idaho House Committee on Education voted to introduce RS32063, a one‑paragraph draft that would require school districts to adopt a written cell‑phone or electronic device policy by Aug. 1 and include confiscation/return procedures; members debated device definitions, special‑education and medical exceptions, and local control.
The Idaho House Committee on Education on Feb. 13 voted to introduce RS32063, a draft that would require each school district to adopt and publish a local policy on student cell phones and other wireless electronic communication devices by Aug. 1.
The bill, presented by Representative Jaren Crane, would direct districts to have the policy approved by their board of trustees and “shall be included in the school district’s written conduct standards manuals,” and would require districts that confiscate devices to specify how confiscated items will be returned to students. Crane summarized the core restriction this way: “At a…
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