Bill Text: TX HB1481 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of personal wireless communication devices by students during instructional time.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-02 - Filed [HB1481 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1481-Introduced.html
| By: Fairly | H.B. No. 1481 | |
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| relating to the use of personal wireless communication devices by | ||
| students during instructional time. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.0232 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.0232. PERSONAL DEVICE USE BY STUDENTS PROHIBITED. | ||
| (a) In this section, “personal wireless communication device” | ||
| means any wireless electronic communication device, other than a | ||
| device provided to students by a school for instructional purposes, | ||
| capable of transmitting and/or receiving data, including cellular | ||
| telephones, text messaging devices, laptop computers, and tablet | ||
| computers. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Section 38.0231, the board of trustees | ||
| of a school district and the governing body of an open-enrollment | ||
| charter school shall adopt policies prohibiting students from using | ||
| personal wireless communication devices during instructional time. | ||
| (c) Policies adopted under Subsection (a) must require that | ||
| classrooms designate a secure, out-of-sight area for the storage of | ||
| personal wireless communication devices during instructional time. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
