republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1135.md

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Bill	Communication Devices in Schools	The act requires, on or before July 1, 2026, the Colorado school for the deaf and the blind, and each institute charter school, district charter school, and a local board of education for its schools that are not district charter schools, to adopt, implement, and post on its website a policy concerning student communication device possession and use during the school day. At a minimum, the policy must describe the prohibitions and exceptions, if any, regarding student communication device possession and use during the school day.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1135	Colorado HB 25-1135 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Janice Marchman Lisa Frizell Mary Bradfield Meghan Lukens	10	17	4	2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2b780236-623d-4f6d-a142-8417faa97637	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1135	342fcd5245e1520395ee251b60f2a828a0067012b5e43806e6d9a0b0435188c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1135 (2025A) — Communication Devices in Schools

The act requires, on or before July 1, 2026, the Colorado school for the deaf and the blind, and each institute charter school, district charter school, and a local board of education for its schools that are not district charter schools, to adopt, implement, and post on its website a policy concerning student communication device possession and use during the school day. At a minimum, the policy must describe the prohibitions and exceptions, if any, regarding student communication device possession and use during the school day.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 46–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 49–13 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 49–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Janice Marchman — primary (person)
• Lisa Frizell — primary (person)
• Mary Bradfield — primary (person)
• Meghan Lukens — primary (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• R. English — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/04/2025 - No Amendments
• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2025-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b780236-623d-4f6d-a142-8417faa97637. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).