School in California will now be required to limit or ban the usage of smartphones in schools under a new state law.

Distracting cell phones in California classrooms could be a thing of the past in less than two years as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bipartisan legislation into law that requires school districts to set policies on banning the communications devices used by students during the school day.

This school year, many of the nation's adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones.