republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-185.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 185	Indiana SB 185 (2024)	bill	SCHOOLS; Discipline TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet Phone Lines Print Media Radio and Television)	enacted	Jeff Raatz Julie McGuire Stacey Donato	4	26	2	2024-01-09	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/5f718822-68a2-4b50-9fa0-a69848e21483	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0185	d0c8a735d5a598b143850162e6dfbfb2798ada11d70431af05873b061a1f40a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/5f718822-68a2-4b50-9fa0-a69848e21483. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).