Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Directs the Surgeon General to study K–12 student mobile device use and its effects, and creates an Education Department pilot granting LEAs funds to buy secure containers/lockers so participating schools can keep student mobile devices locked during school hours. Includes exemptions for health, students with disabilities, and English learners; parent notification and feedback requirements; up to $5 million authorized for 2025–2029; 2% may be used for administration and study costs.
Equity concerns: liberals worry about disparate enforcement impacts
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions primarily as a study/reporting measure supplemented by an administrative pilot.
Directs the Surgeon General to study K–12 student mobile device use and its effects, and creates an Education Department pilot granting LEAs funds to buy secure containers/lockers so participating schools can keep student mobile devices locked during school hours.
Includes exemptions for health, students with disabilities, and English learners; parent notification and feedback requirements; up to $5 million authorized for 2025–2029; 2% may be used for administration and study costs.
The Surgeon General must report results to Congress within two years of enactment.
Small, technical pilot with bipartisan potential improves odds, but many similar bills stall in committee or lack appropriations.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions primarily as a study/reporting measure supplemented by an administrative pilot. It clearly defines the topics to be studied, assigns responsible officials, sets a deadline, and establishes a pilot grant mechanism with application and selection criteria and limited funding.
Equity concerns: liberals worry about disparate enforcement impacts
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Equity concerns: liberals worry about disparate enforcement impacts
Likely generally supportive of studying device impacts and piloting device-free classrooms, but cautious about equity and disciplinary effects.
Will want protections for students with disabilities, low-income students who rely on phones, and data disaggregation to detect disparate impacts.
Likely supportive because the bill funds a limited pilot and a federal study rather than a nationwide mandate.
Values the evidence-based, voluntary approach and modest federal cost, though concerned about implementation details and generalizability.
Likely broadly favorable to limits on in-class mobile device use for discipline and learning, but wary of federal involvement and any precedent for federal control of local schools.
May approve given the opt-in pilot and modest spending.
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Small, technical pilot with bipartisan potential improves odds, but many similar bills stall in committee or lack appropriations.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Equity concerns: liberals worry about disparate enforcement impacts
Small, technical pilot with bipartisan potential improves odds, but many similar bills stall in committee or lack appropriations.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions primarily as a study/reporting measure supplemented by an administrative pilot. It clearly defines the topics to be studied, assigns responsible officials,…
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