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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Student use of wireless communication device."
+description: "Requires each school corporation and charter school to: (1) adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that governs student use of a wireless communication device; and (2) publish the policy on the school corporation's or charter school's website."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 185"
+citation: "Indiana SB 185 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["SCHOOLS; Discipline", "TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet", "Phone Lines", "Print Media", "Radio", "and Television)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Raatz", "Julie McGuire", "Stacey Donato"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f718822-68a2-4b50-9fa0-a69848e21483"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0185"
+source_hash: "d0c8a735d5a598b143850162e6dfbfb2798ada11d70431af05873b061a1f40a1"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 185 (2024) — Student use of wireless communication device.
+
+Requires each school corporation and charter school to: (1) adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that governs student use of a wireless communication device; and (2) publish the policy on the school corporation's or charter school's website.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0185/SB0185.03.ENGS.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0185/SB0185.05.ENRH.pdf)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0185/SB0185.01.INTR.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0185/SB0185.04.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 185 - McGuire - 3rd Reading — **83–8** (pass) · lower
+- SB 185 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
+- Julie McGuire — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- James Buck — coauthor (person)
+- John Crane — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Tonya Pfaff — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-09** Authored by Senator Raatz
+- **2024-01-11** Senator Crane added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-29** Senator Donato added as second author
+- **2024-01-29** Amendment #1 (Ford J.D.) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 63: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-01-30** House sponsor: Representative McGuire
+- **2024-01-30** Cosponsor: Representative Teshka
+- **2024-01-30** Senator Buck added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-30** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Representatives Davis and Pfaff added as cosponsors
+- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Representative Teshka removed as cosponsor
+- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 175: yeas 83, nays 8 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Public Law 24 `became-law`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f718822-68a2-4b50-9fa0-a69848e21483`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+