Texas 2025 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB382 Introduced / Bill

Filed 11/15/2024

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                    By: Middleton S.B. No. 382




 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to a prohibition on the use of artificial intelligence
 technology for classroom instruction.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
 amended by adding Section 28.0028 to read as follows:
 Sec. 28.0028.  PROHIBITED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 TECHNOLOGY. A school district or open-enrollment charter school
 may not use artificial intelligence technology to:
 (1)  provide instruction to students; or
 (2)  replace or supplement a teacher's role in
 providing instruction or interacting with students in a course of
 instruction.
 SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
 school year.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 Act takes effect September 1, 2025.