{"id":208338,"date":"2026-06-02T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:51:07","slug":"pennsylvania-house-passes-bill-to-ban-cellphones-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208338\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House passes bill to ban cellphones in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A statewide cellphone ban in Pennsylvania schools is moving closer to becoming law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pennsylvania House passed a bill on Monday that would ban student cellphone use in all K-12 schools during the school day, including lunch and recess, with limited exceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The measure passed 126 to 75 with bipartisan support and now heads to the Senate, which previously advanced a similar proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A recent poll shows strong public support, with Governor Josh Shapiro also urging lawmakers to approve the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statewide cellphone ban in Pennsylvania schools is moving closer to becoming law. The Pennsylvania House passed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50879,33,28,30,9116,29],"class_list":["post-208338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bipartisan-support","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}