119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Feb 5, 2025
Focus on Learning Act
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Latest action (Feb 5, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Feb 5, 2025)
Focus on Learning Act
This bill requires certain federal actions to address the use of mobile devices in elementary and secondary schools.
First, the bill directs the Office of the Surgeon General, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to study and report on the use of mobile devices in elementary and secondary schools nationwide. Among other elements, this study must include the impact of mobile device use on student learning and academic achievement, student educational outcomes, and student mental health.
Second, the Department of Education, in consultation with HHS, must establish a pilot program to award grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to enable participating schools served by such LEAs to purchase secure containers and install lockers in order to create a school environment free of mobile devices.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
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Academic performance and assessments · Congressional oversight · Educational facilities and institutions · Elementary and secondary education · Government studies and investigations · School administration · Telephone and wireless communication
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INTERNET WORKS ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: LOT SIXTEEN LLC
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 19, 2026 · issue area: Telecommunications
$50,000
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Issues related to Section 230, Data Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Competition; issues related to competition and digital trade; S. 404.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
INTERNET WORKS ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: LOT SIXTEEN LLC
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 16, 2026 · issue area: Telecommunications
$50,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to Section 230, Data Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Competition; issues related to competition and digital trade; S. 404.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
INTERNET WORKS ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: LOT SIXTEEN LLC
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 20, 2026 · issue area: Telecommunications
$50,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Issues related to Section 230, Data Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Competition; issues related to competition and digital trade; S. 404.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing