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Senate panel approves bill letting districts set limits on student cell‑phone use with narrow exceptions
Summary
The committee approved a bill that leaves cell‑phone policy to local school districts while carving out exceptions for students with disabilities and emergent multilingual learners; senators debated whether teachers' unions should be mentioned in the bill's stakeholder list and agreed on language that keeps policymaking local.
The Senate Education Committee advanced a bill that would require school districts to adopt policies limiting the use of personal devices by students during the school day while preserving narrowly defined exceptions.
Under the committee‑amended language, local school district policies may limit or prohibit student use of personal devices during instructional time. The amendment preserved specific exemptions for students who require…
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