Senate panel approves bill letting districts set limits on student cell‑phone use with narrow exceptions
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.
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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.
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