---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CELL PHONE USE IN SCHOOL."
description: "This Act requires each school district and charter school to adopt a policy, with educator input, about cell phone use by students during school hours. Each policy must contain:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 106"
citation: "Delaware SB 106 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Buckson", "Eric Morrison", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Mara Gorman", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-09"
last_action: "2026-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cce0ea4-68c3-4e21-a72e-56719703fbb9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142100"
source_hash: "d5b51ea42f931f42a83224c9ae63941acb71b9805d467a0572ec9665fcea67e1"
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-de"]
---

# Delaware SB 106 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CELL PHONE USE IN SCHOOL.

This Act requires each school district and charter school to adopt a policy, with educator input, about cell phone use by students during school hours. Each policy must contain:

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HA 2 to SB 106** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142759&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
2. **SA 2 to SB 106** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142356&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Buckson — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-04-09** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Amendment SA 1 to SB 106 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-20** Amendment SA 1 to SB 106 - Stricken in Senate
- **2025-05-20** Amendment SA 2 to SB 106 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-12-18** Amendment HA 1 to SB 106 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Amendment HA 2 to SB 106 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Amendment HA 1 to SB 106 - Stricken in House
- **2026-01-13** Amendment HA 2 to SB 106 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-13** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cce0ea4-68c3-4e21-a72e-56719703fbb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).