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  <updated>2026-04-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <id>https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2026-hb-329</id>
    <title>AL HB 329: Education; public K-12 schools, completion of approved computer science course required</title>
    <link href="https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2026-hb-329"/>
    <updated>2026-04-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Became law"/>
    <summary>Became law. Adds emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to Alabama's statutory definition of computer science and requires public school students, beginning with the graduating class of 2032, to earn at least one credit in a department-approved computer science course or a course with embedded computer science skills. The credit can count toward mathematics, science, career and technical education, or elective requirements without raising the total credits needed to graduate.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2026-hb-238</id>
    <title>AL HB 238: Appropriations from Education Trust Fund for the support, maintenance, and development of public education for fiscal year ending September 30, 2027</title>
    <link href="https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2026-hb-238"/>
    <updated>2026-04-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Became law"/>
    <summary>Became law. Appropriates Education Trust Fund money for fiscal year 2027, including $1,000,000 to the Alabama Community College System for Cyber Technology and AI Expansion and $2,000,000 for AI-Ready Classrooms under the Advanced Innovation Grant Program in the State Department of Education's Financial Assistance Program.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2026-sb-141</id>
    <title>AL SB 141: Appropriations from Education Trust Fund for the support, maintenance, and development of public education for fiscal year ending September 30, 2027</title>
    <link href="https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2026-sb-141"/>
    <updated>2026-01-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Did not pass"/>
    <summary>Did not pass. Appropriates Education Trust Fund money for fiscal year 2027, including $1,000,000 to the Alabama Community College System for Cyber Technology and AI Expansion.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2025-hb-332</id>
    <title>AL HB 332: Education, public K-12 schools, completion of approved computer science course required</title>
    <link href="https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2025-hb-332"/>
    <updated>2025-05-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Did not pass"/>
    <summary>Did not pass. Would have added emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to Alabama's statutory definition of computer science and required public school students, beginning with the graduating class of 2031, to earn a computer science credit to graduate. It passed the House but was not taken up for a final Senate vote before the 2025 regular session ended; a similar bill, HB 329, was enacted in 2026.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <id>https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2024-sb-109</id>
    <title>AL SB 109: Crimes &amp; Offenses, raises maximum age for offenses involving minors &amp; sexually explicit conduct, authorizes punitive damages for victims of those offenses, directs Board of Education to require policies related to those offenses</title>
    <link href="https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2024-sb-109"/>
    <updated>2024-05-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Did not pass"/>
    <summary>Did not pass. Revises Alabama child sexual abuse material offenses, including artificially generated material, and creates a civil cause of action. Directs the State Board of Education to require each local board of education to adopt and distribute a student discipline and education policy that prohibits private, explicit, or pornographic images generated with artificial intelligence.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <id>https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2024-hb-168</id>
    <title>AL HB 168: Crimes &amp; Offenses, raises max. age for offenses involving obscene materials with depictions of children, authorizes punitive damages for victims of those offenses, and directs Board of Ed. to require policies related to those offenses</title>
    <link href="https://edictai.org/states/al/#us-al-2024-hb-168"/>
    <updated>2024-04-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Became law"/>
    <summary>Became law. Revises Alabama child sexual abuse material offenses, including artificially generated material, and creates a civil cause of action. Directs the State Board of Education to require each local board of education to adopt and distribute a student discipline and education policy that prohibits private, explicit, or pornographic images generated with artificial intelligence.</summary>
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