republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-208.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to technology in public schools.	Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during the school day with specific exceptions; amend KRS 156.675 to include social media in prohibited material to be made inaccessible through school technology and provide the scope of social media to be prohibited.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 208	Kentucky HB 208 (2025RS)	bill	Education Elementary and Secondary Technology Telecommunications	enacted		3	22	2	2025-01-10T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a8faecd3-a1d9-4ffb-859e-1a5a5d64895e	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb208.html	49061b462823a89cbefa051ada8c2f641a807f9f2942fe7482433f807bd7ce3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 208 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to technology in public schools.

Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during the school day with specific exceptions; amend KRS 156.675 to include social media in prohibited material to be made inaccessible through school technology and provide the scope of social media to be prohibited.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 90 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 208 — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Primary and Secondary Education (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (1) filed amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with Floor Amendment (1) passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Education (S)
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Education (S)
• 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules committee-passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 14, 2025
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 35-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 90) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8faecd3-a1d9-4ffb-859e-1a5a5d64895e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).