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

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Sponsor: White, Stevens
Last action: 2026-02-05
Official status: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Charter Schools and Local Boards Must Publish AI Policies

This bill requires Tennessee charter schools and local school boards to publish policies about using artificial intelligence on their websites.

What This Bill Does

Requires public charter schools to put their policy on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on the school's website.
Directs each local board of education to create a policy regarding the use of AI in schools under its control.
Local boards must report annually to the state Department of Education about their compliance with this new requirement.
Requires local boards to put their AI policies on the websites of all schools they manage.

Who It Names or Affects

Public charter schools
Local school boards and their managed schools

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 what happens if a school fails to comply with the reporting requirements.
It is unclear how the Department of Education will enforce compliance with this act.

Bill History

2026-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
2026-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly
Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee
2026-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly
P2C, ref. to Education Committee
2026-02-04 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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HOUSE BILL 2416
By Stevens

SENATE BILL 2105
By White
SB2105
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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.