See What is Modal Logic?:
Narrowly construed, modal logic studies reasoning that involves the use of the expressions ‘necessarily’ and ‘possibly’. However, the term ‘modal logic’ is used more broadly to cover a family of logics with similar rules and a variety of different symbols [including logics for belief, for tense and other temporal expressions, for the deontic (moral) expressions such as ‘it is obligatory that’ and ‘it is permitted that’, and many others.]
Usually, modal propositional logic is built "on top" of classical (i.e. truth-functional) propositional logic.
See e.g. George Boolos & John Burgess & Richard Jeffrey, Computability and Logic (4th ed - 2002): 27.1 Modal Logic, page 327-on:
Modal sentential logic adds to the apparatus of ordinary or ‘classical’ sentential logic one more logical operator, the box $\square$, read ‘necessarily’ or ‘it must be the case that’. One more clause is added to the definition of sentence: if $A$ is a sentence, so is $\square A$. [...]
A modal sentence is said to be a tautology if it can be obtained from a valid
sentence of nonmodal sentential logic by substituting modal sentences for sentence letters. Thus, since $p ∨ \lnot p$ is valid for any sentence letter $p$, $A ∨ \lnot A$ is a tautology for any modal sentence $A$.