{"id":310984,"date":"2026-10-21T01:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310984\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:52:13","slug":"pennsylvania-closer-to-implementing-cell-phone-ban-for-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310984\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania closer to implementing cell phone ban for public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM) &#8212; Pennsylvania is one step closer to banning cell phones in public schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday, the State House approved a bill requiring students to keep their phones secured throughout the school day, with certain medical and emergency exceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bill passed with a bipartisan vote of 141 to 62 and now heads to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[sailthru_widget name=&#8221;Sailthru Widget Block&#8221; sailthru_list=&#8221;Evening News&#8221; title=&#8221;abc27 Evening Newsletter&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If passed, it could take effect next school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Gov. Josh Shapiro has said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\/pennsylvania-politics\/shapiro-calls-for-cellphone-ban-in-pennsylvania-schools\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Josh Shapiro has said<\/a> that if the bill makes it to his desk, he will sign it, saying in a social media post in January that &#8220;Students need to spend time focused on learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sen. Devlin Robinson&#8217;s (R-Allegheny) cell phone ban legislation, <a data-ylk=\"slk:introduced in Oct. 2024;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\/pennsylvania-politics\/pennsylvania-schools-could-ban-cell-phones\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">introduced in Oct. 2024<\/a>, would implement a bell-to-bell phone-free policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM) &#8212; Pennsylvania is one step closer to banning cell phones in public schools. On Monday, the State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-310984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310984","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=310984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}