The House K-12 education committee approved a bill to require public schools to create policies that limit cell phone use during class time.
Republican Representative Neal Jackson co-sponsored the bill. He said it gives school boards flexibility on how they write a cell phone policy.
"How that works out is up to the school board," he explained. "We're not saying you have to do that a certain way. If you go to Chatham County, they have the little pouches that the kids put it in the pouch with a magnetic thing that the kids don't have access all day long, but in Moore County, they have access in between classes."
A similar bill proposed in the Senate would put more requirements on school boards, including that they establish consequences for violations.