{
  "title": "Edictai records: Arkansas",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-ar",
  "name": "Arkansas",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-ar-2025-hb-1958",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1958",
      "title": "To Require Public Entities To Create A Policy Concerning The Authorized Use Of Artificial Intelligence.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-04-01",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "institutional-operations",
        "local-policy-requirement"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "requires-local-ai-policy",
        "issues-model-policy",
        "educator-pd-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires public entities, defined to include public school districts, open-enrollment charter schools, and institutions of higher education, to create an artificial intelligence and automated decision tool policy that defines authorized use and requires a human to make final decisions, and to train employees on it. Directs the Department of Education to develop AI policies for each type of state educational institution.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ar/#us-ar-2025-hb-1958"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ar-2025-sb-258",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 258",
      "title": "To Create The Arkansas Digital Responsibility, Safety, And Trust Act.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-02-19",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "admissions",
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates the Arkansas Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Trust Act, which regulates developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems that make or substantially factor into consequential decisions, including education enrollment, with documentation, impact assessment, and disclosure duties. State agencies covered include public university systems and institutions of higher education.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ar/#us-ar-2025-sb-258"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ar-2025-hb-1283",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1283",
      "title": "To Require The Division Of Elementary And Secondary Education To Include Digital Media Standards In Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve Library Media Standards.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-01-28",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-in-standards"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish K-12 digital media standards by the 2026-2027 school year, embedded in English language arts and library media standards. The standards must include artificial intelligence usage instruction and the proper use of AI, and the division must create or endorse a curriculum.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ar/#us-ar-2025-hb-1283"
    }
  ]
}