Virginia House Bill 882 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Department of Education; model policy on student cell phone use during instructional time; local adoption. Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model policy whereby public elementary and secondary school students are prohibited from possessing or using personal cell phones or other personal handheld communication devices during instructional time at school. The bill requires the Department, in developing and adopting such model policy, to seek to balance the interests of students' academic achievement, cognitive development, safety, and general well-being and permits the Department to include appropriate exceptions in extraordinary circumstances such as emergency situations or situations involving the need to contact the student's parents. The bill requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that is consistent with such model policy adopted by the Department.

Students; Department of Education's model policy on cell phone use during instructional time.

Del. Mark Earley [R]	Del. Mike Cherry [R]	Del. Chad Green [R]	Del. Hillary Pugh Kent [R]
Del. Ian Lovejoy [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]

2024-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	House	Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
2024-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2024-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
2024-01-29	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101909D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	23.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB882
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB882+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB882F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0901V0063+HB0882