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Committee advances limit on student phone use during school day
Summary
House Bill 208, which would require school districts to adopt policies limiting cell phone and social-media use during the school day while preserving health and emergency exemptions, passed out of committee after debate on safety and implementation.
Representative Josh Bray introduced House Bill 208, which would require local school districts to establish policies that limit use of cell phones during the school day and add a social-media filtering component on district websites to restrict non-educational use.
Bray told the committee the measure is similar to a bill that passed the committee last year and that this version adds a social media component so districts would filter or limit social-media access during the school day except for educational uses.
Members questioned implementation and exemptions.…
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