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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 208: AN ACT relating to technology in public schools.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 208 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on January 10, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to technology in public schools. Most recent recorded action (March 26, 2025): signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 90).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during the school day with specific exceptions; amend KRS 156.675 to include social media in prohibited material to be made inaccessible through school technology and provide the scope of social media to be prohibited.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 90)
  2. delivered to Governor
  3. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  4. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  5. received in House
  6. 3rd reading, passed 35-0
  7. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 14, 2025
  8. reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules
  9. returned to Education (S)
  10. 1st reading
  11. taken from Education (S)
  12. to Education (S)

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source