republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-340.md

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Bill	Distraction-Free Education Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to enact the "Distraction-Free Education Act"; to require local school systems and public schools to enact policies and procedures for use of personal electronic devices at school and school sponsored events by students in kindergarten through eighth grade; to provide for permissible student use of personal electronic devices; to authorize the Department of Education to provide guidance and technical assistance; to prohibit certain waivers; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 340	Georgia HB 340 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Carmen Rice Carter Barrett Houston Gaines Jan Jones Scott Hilton Will Wade	6	15	4	2025-02-06	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/defe4485-5aab-4e72-bc2e-0037a8dc0ad6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5384ead392fcad0b69d015ffd4d9023dd1b1e94fc5027164b90aaa8ec6d3e2de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 340 (2025_26) — Distraction-Free Education Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to enact the "Distraction-Free Education Act"; to require local school systems and public schools to enact policies and procedures for use of personal electronic devices at school and school sponsored events by students in kindergarten through eighth grade; to provide for permissible student use of personal electronic devices; to authorize the Department of Education to provide guidance and technical assistance; to prohibit certain waivers; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

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

1. HB 340/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 2216/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 2284S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2284S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 49 0259 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Floor Amend 1A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #288 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 15–39 (fail) · upper
• Senate Vote #289 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–2 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #287 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 23–32 (fail) · upper
• House Vote #185 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 143–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carmen Rice — primary (person)
• Carter Barrett — primary (person)
• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Scott Hilton — primary (person)
• Will Wade — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 74 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/defe4485-5aab-4e72-bc2e-0037a8dc0ad6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).