HB65 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Patrick Sellers Representative

Democrat

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Public K-12 education; State Board of Education required to adopt model student cell phone use policy, local boards of education required to adopt cell phone use policy

Description

Under existing law, local boards of education have the authority to adopt local policies relating to pocket pagers, cellular telephones, and other electronic communication devices.

This bill would require the State Board of Education to adopt a model policy restricting the use of cell phones and other electronic communication devices in public K-12 schools during the school day, with some exceptions.

This bill would also require each local board of education to adopt a policy relating to the use of electronic communication devices based on that model policy.

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Subjects

Education