{"id":314799,"date":"2026-10-26T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314799\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:56:09","slug":"shapiro-signs-bell-to-bell-cell-phone-ban-into-law-at-pa-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314799\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro signs &#8216;bell-to-bell&#8217; cell phone ban into law at PA middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/sb1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Senate Bill 1014<\/a> into law Monday at a Pennsylvania middle school, which officially prohibits generalized cell phone use from bell-to-bell in schools across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro visited Lenape Middle School in Doylestown, where he will sign SB 1014, a move the administration said will ensure students can learn without distractions.<\/p>\n<p>The law only allows cell phone use for certain medical and emergency exceptions from the morning bell to the end of the school day.<\/p>\n<p>The governor was joined by school district leaders and public officials for the signing at 11 a.m. after passing the Senate by a 47-3 vote after making it through the House by a 141-62 vote.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI called for this in my Budget Address and repeatedly urged the legislature to act \u2014 and now, we\u2019ve brought Democrats and Republicans together to get this done for our students and our educators. It\u2019s time to get back to the basics in school and let our kids be kids,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovernorShapiro\/status\/2113007187505111274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shapiro wrote on social media<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The bill will go into effect for the next school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 1014 into law Monday at a Pennsylvania middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-314799","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\/314799","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=314799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}