Restrictions apply to common student devices, which schools must either prohibit entirely or require students to keep powered off and inaccessible during the school day.
The bill — known as the Indiana Fairness Act — had been awaiting a concurrence vote by the Senate since last week, when author Sen. Liz Brown signed off on its House changes and sent it back to her chamber.
Legislation creating a “military police force” of Indiana National Guard members — to be deployed around the state at the governor’s behest — overwhelmingly passed the Senate on Tuesday despite bipartisan opposition. The Senate also approved more than three dozen other bills.
A narrowly divided vote to roll back portions of Indiana’s environmental code anchored a deadline-day push Tuesday as the Indiana House advanced a slate of bills and set up end-of-session negotiations across the rotunda.
