An act to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1303a; and to repeal acts and parts of acts. (Filed with the Secretary of State on February 10, 2026, at 11:54 a.m.)
The bill mandates school districts to enforce policies restricting wireless device use among students, with specific prohibitions varying by grade level, and repeals a previous section of the school code.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
Reported with substitute H-2
Substitute H-2 concurred in by voice vote
Substitute H-4 offered
by
The substitute passed by voice vote
1. Amend page 2, line 4, after “(2)” by striking out “The” and inserting “Subject to subsection (8), the”.
2. Amend page 3, following line 14, by inserting:
“(8) This section does not apply to a high school that has a culturally enhancing discipline
program pertaining to the use of wireless communications devices in the classroom that was
developed with the input of school staff, parents, and students.” and renumbering the remaining
subsection.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Failed in the House 53 to 45 (details)
Motion to reconsider
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
Substitute H-8 offered
by
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 99 to 10 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported without amendment
1. Amend page 2, following line 22, by inserting:
“(g) The use of a wireless communications device to record misconduct.”.
The amendment failed 17 to 18 (details)
Passed in the Senate 34 to 1 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
