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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.

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Sponsor: Stevens, White
Last action: 2026-02-05
Official status: Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify what happens if a school fails to follow the rules.

Charter Schools and Local Boards Must Publish AI Policies

This bill requires Tennessee charter schools to publish their policies on using artificial intelligence for instructional purposes on their websites and mandates local school boards to direct each school under its control to do the same.

What This Bill Does

Requires public charter schools to put their policy on AI use by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on their website.
Local boards of education must adopt a policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes and report compliance annually starting July 1, 2024.
Each local board of education directs each school under its control to publish the board's AI policy on the school’s website.

Who It Names or Affects

Public charter schools in Tennessee
Local boards of education in Tennessee

Terms To Know

Artificial Intelligence (AI): A machine-based system that can make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify the consequences for failing to follow the rules.
It is unclear how strictly schools will enforce these policies.

Bill History

2026-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly
Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee
2026-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly
P2C, ref. to Education Committee
2026-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
2026-02-04 Tennessee General Assembly
Intro., P1C.
2026-02-03 Tennessee General Assembly
Filed for introduction
2026-02-02 Tennessee General Assembly
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2026-01-22 Tennessee General Assembly
Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

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Current Bill Text

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SENATE BILL 2105
By White

HOUSE BILL 2416
By Stevens
HB2416
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49,
relative to education.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-118, is amended by adding
the following as a new subsection:
(c) Each public charter school shall publish the policy adopted by its governing
board on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional
and assignment purposes on the public charter school's website.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-2-203(a), is amended by deleting
subdivision (16) and substituting instead the following:
(A) Adopt a policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence by students,
teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes. The policy must be
implemented in schools no later than the 2024-2025 school year. By July 1, 2024, and
by each July 1 thereafter, the board shall report to the department of education of its
compliance with this subdivision (a)(16). The report must include the adopted policy and
describe how the board will enforce the policy in the upcoming school year. As used in
this subdivision (a)(16), "artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can,
for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or
decisions influencing real or virtual environments and that is capable of using machine
and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments, abstract such
perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner, and use model
inference to formulate options for information or action; and

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(B) Direct each school managed and controlled by the local board of education
to publish the board's policy on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers,
and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on the school's website.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2026, the public welfare requiring it.