Lawmakers quickly advance bill limiting phone use throughout school day

Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Daniel Woodruff, KSL

SALT LAKE CITY — A proposal championed by Utah's governor to limit cellphones throughout the school day is moving quickly through the Utah Legislature.

SB69, sponsored by Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, passed out of the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday, 6-1, after multiple public comments in favor of adopting a default policy to ban phones at schools from the "opening bell to the closing bell."

"These devices that we call phones are in fact phones and casinos and adult movie theaters, and televisions and radios (and) universities," Fillmore said. "There's so much that a phone can do, most of which does not belong in a school."

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