A House committee on Monday agreed to give public and private elementary and secondary schools discretion about whether to ban cellphones during instructional time.
The House education committee voted 11-6 to amend the ban so public and accredited private schools may - not shall - adopt policies and procedures governing the use of cellphones. The committee voted to send the bill to the floor.
The bill required those procedures to ban students from using or accessing a personal electronic communication devices during the normal hours of the school day, including in . . .
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