Arkansas 2025 Regular Session

Arkansas House Bill HB1283 Compare Versions

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3	3	State of Arkansas 1
4	4	95th General Assembly A Bill 2
5	5	Regular Session, 2025 HOUSE BILL 1283 3
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7	7	By: Representative J. Mayberry 5
8	8	By: Senator J. English 6
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10	10	For An Act To Be Entitled 8
11	11	AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND 9
12	12	SECONDARY EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 10
13	13	GRADE TWELVE DIGITAL MEDIA STANDARDS; AND FOR OTHER 11
14	14	PURPOSES. 12
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17	17	Subtitle 15
18	18	TO REQUIRE THE DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY 16
19	19	AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH 17
20	20	KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWELVE 18
21	21	DIGITAL MEDIA STANDARDS. 19
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23	23	BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 21
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25	25	SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 6, Chapter 16, Subchapter 1, is amended 23
26	26	to add an additional section to read as follows: 24
27	27	6-16-163. Digital media standards — Required — Definitions. 25
28	28	(a) The General Assembly finds that: 26
29	29	(1) There is an urgent need to address the potentially harmful 27
30	30	effects of social media on children and adults; and 28
31	31	(2) It is crucial that the General Assembly establish a means by 29
32	32	which students in the State of Arkansas can learn to be digitally literate 30
33	33	and responsible in order to protect against the potentially harmful effects 31
34	34	of social media. 32
35	35	(b) As used in this section: 33
36	36	(1)(A) "Artificial intelligence" means a machine -based system 34
37	37	that can make decisions, recommendations, or predictions based on a set of 35
38	38	objectives. 36 HB1283
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41	41	(B) "Artificial intelligence" includes a machine -based 1
42	42	system that uses human and machine inputs in order to perceive environments, 2
43	43	analyze environments, and formulate opinions; 3
44	44	(2) "Digital citizenship" means the application of the standards 4
45	45	of appropriate, responsible, and healthy online behavior, including the 5
46	46	ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act on all forms of digital 6
47	47	communication; 7
48	48	(3) "Digital wellness" means the physical and emotional health 8
49	49	impacts of media use, with attention to the development of conscious, 9
50	50	balanced usage of media that aligns with an individual's goals for his or her 10
51	51	health and well-being; 11
52	52	(4)(A) "Information literacy" means a subdomain of media 12
53	53	literacy that ensures an individual is able to recognize when information is 13
54	54	needed and locate, evaluate, and effectively utilize the needed information. 14
55	55	(B) "Information literacy" includes learning to ask 15
56	56	questions regarding whether a source is legitimate and appropriate based on 16
57	57	the information that is needed; 17
58	58	(5)(A) "Media literacy" means the ability to: 18
59	59	(i) Decode media messages, including the systems in 19
60	60	which media messages exist; 20
61	61	(ii) Assess the influence of media messages on 21
62	62	thoughts, feelings, behaviors, perceptions, beliefs, health, and society; and 22
63	63	(iii) Use and create media messages to provide 23
64	64	information, send a message, or tell a story in a way that is thoughtful, 24
65	65	conscientious, safe, and responsible. 25
66	66	(B) "Media literacy" includes digital citizenship, digital 26
67	67	wellness, information literacy, news literacy, and social media literacy; 27
68	68	(6)(A) "News literacy" means a subdomain of media literacy that 28
69	69	emphasizes knowledge of journalistic practices and the news media industry. 29
70	70	(B) "News literacy" includes the ability to determine the 30
71	71	credibility and reliability of news and other information and to recognize 31
72	72	the standards of fact -based journalism to know what to trust, share, and act 32
73	73	on; and 33
74	74	(7) "Social media literacy" means the application of digital 34
75	75	citizenship and digital wellness to address physical and mental health 35
76	76	implications of social media use, including positive and negative mental and 36 HB1283
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79	79	emotional health implications of viewing certain social media content and all 1
80	80	aspects of safety and wellness related to the use of social media. 2
81	81	(c)(1) By the 2026-2027 school year, the Division of Elementary and 3
82	82	Secondary Education shall establish kindergarten through grade twelve (K -12) 4
83	83	digital media standards. 5
84	84	(2)(A) Digital media standards shall be embedded into existing 6
85	85	English language arts and library media standards. 7
86	86	(B) The division shall consider whether to embed digital 8
87	87	media standards into other existing content standards. 9
88	88	(d) The digital media standards required under this section shall 10
89	89	include instruction on: 11
90	90	(1) Digital citizenship, including media literacy instruction, 12
91	91	internet safety instruction, and artificial intelligence usage instruction; 13
92	92	(2) Digital wellness, including without limitation information 14
93	93	on the: 15
94	94	(A) Positive effects of social media, including 16
95	95	communicating, researching, and collaborating with others and building 17
96	96	businesses and relationships; 18
97	97	(B) Negative effects of social media on mental health, 19
98	98	including addiction; 20
99	99	(C) Distribution of misinformation on social media; 21
100	100	(D) Potential of social media to manipulate behavior; and 22
101	101	(E) Permanency of sharing materials and information 23
102	102	online; 24
103	103	(3) Internet safety, including best practices to: 25
104	104	(A) Maintain personal security; and 26
105	105	(B) Identify cyberbullying, predatory behavior, and human 27
106	106	trafficking on the internet; 28
107	107	(4) Social media literacy; and 29
108	108	(5) The proper use of artificial intelligence. 30
109	109	(e) The division shall: 31
110	110	(1) Create or endorse a curriculum to implement kindergarten 32
111	111	through grade twelve (K -12) digital media standards required under this 33
112	112	section; and 34
113	113	(2) Establish or endorse parental resources that support the 35
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