Bill to ban cell phone usage at high schools clears Georgia state House

Meimei Xu, WABE

Georgia state representatives passed a bill Tuesday to extend the bell-to-bell ban on personal devices in elementary and middle schools to high schools.

House Bill 1009 passed the Georgia House of Representatives 145 to 20.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the K-8 cell phone ban into law last year. Republican state Rep. Scott Hilton, who authored both that bill and HB 1009, said devices lead to poor academic and developmental outcomes.

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