https://edictai.org/states/ca/feed.xml 2026-09-30T00:00:00Z Edictai https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-1766 2026-09-30T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the Instructional Quality Commission, at the next revision of the health curriculum framework, to consider including content on human trafficking and online safety, including how to stay safe from sexually exploitative materials and deepfakes online, in an age-appropriate progression from kindergarten through grade 12. Requires the State Department of Education to maintain related information and educator training resources.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-2392 2026-09-30T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the California Community Colleges chancellor's office and the California State University, and requests the University of California, to convene an intersegmental working group to recommend generative AI procurement standards and training. The systems must provide and annually review the training for students, faculty, and staff, keep training records, and report to the Legislature on systemwide GenAI contracts until standards are adopted.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-1792 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Became law. Adds Education Code 51900.3 so that sexual health instruction includes content educating pupils about dating abuse and digital violence, including the risks of nonconsensual intimate imagery, deepfakes, and the misuse of generative artificial intelligence.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-2504 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, upon appropriation, to establish the Future of Creative Industries Pilot Program at up to 10 community colleges to reskill and upskill creative-industry workers displaced or at risk of displacement by generative AI, and to report on outcomes by January 1, 2032.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-1159 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Became law. Amends California's student online privacy laws for K-12 and preschool so that operators of school-purpose websites, services, and apps may not use covered student information to train generative AI systems or develop AI systems. It also creates a Higher Education Student Information Protection Act, operative July 1, 2027, with similar protections for college students, and lets harmed students bring civil actions against noncompliant operators.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-2071 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the State Department of Education to develop, by January 1, 2028, a plan to expand digital wellness instruction in California public schools. The plan must include strategies for keeping curriculum current with evolving digital and artificial intelligence technology and for educator professional development.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-1018 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z

Passed one chamber. Regulates the development and deployment of automated decision systems used to make consequential decisions, with duties for developers and deployers including instructions, notice, and disclosures. Consequential decisions include education and vocational training decisions on assessment and placement, accreditation, certification, admissions and enrollment, discipline, and financial aid, and education deployers subject to FERPA may give notice through FERPA processes.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sb-928 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the instructor of record for a California State University course, and CSU faculty employees, to be persons who meet the trustees' rules for faculty service, while stating that CSU employees may still use artificial intelligence tools in operations and student services.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sb-1133 2026-08-22T00:00:00Z

Became law. Enacts the Ready to Learn, Ready for Health Act, requiring the Instructional Quality Commission, when the Health Education Framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2027, to consider including preventative health information, including the impacts and responsible use of social media, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-1694 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z

Passed one chamber. Amends the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program renewal criteria. Applicants must show partnerships with postsecondary institutions, including dual enrollment, to establish or expand career pathways in fields including artificial intelligence.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-scr-82 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z

Did not pass. Encourages the leaders of the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges to create a workgroup of faculty, staff, and administrators to review AI use in higher education, discuss best practices on academic honesty, student privacy, academic support, and faculty support, and report to the Legislature within one year.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-126 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z

Became law. Appropriates $600,000 to the State Department of Education to contract with a county office of education to maintain the California Educators Together online repository, which must include guidance and resources for educators and pupils on safeguards for use of new and emerging technology in schools, including artificial intelligence. It also creates a statewide subject matter transcript review service for the Commission on Teacher Credentialing that must comply with applicable AI governance standards.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sb-126 2026-07-02T00:00:00Z

Passed one chamber. Appropriates $600,000 to the State Department of Education to contract with a county office of education to maintain the California Educators Together online repository, which must include guidance and resources for educators and pupils on safeguards for use of new and emerging technology in schools, including artificial intelligence. It also creates a statewide subject matter transcript review service for the Commission on Teacher Credentialing that must comply with applicable AI governance standards.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-2148 2026-06-30T00:00:00Z

Became law. Defines a public school employee and a contractor performing services in a public school as a natural person. As amended March 19, 2026, would have barred discipline or dismissal of K-12 and public college and university employees based on information produced via artificial intelligence or automated decision system output, or for refusing to use educational technology, and required educational technology to let employees turn it off. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-cde-ai-model-policy 2026-06-25T00:00:00Z

Current. A non-binding model board policy that California school districts and charter schools can adapt, developed by the California Department of Education with the SB 1288 working group. It covers disclosure and plagiarism, limits on AI detection software, privacy and vendor contract safeguards, parent review rights, teacher-retained grading authority, and AI literacy as a core academic competency.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-eo-n-6-26 2026-05-21T00:00:00Z

In force. Directs California labor, economic development, and other state agencies to study and respond to AI's effects on the workforce, including reviewing training programs and AI literacy programs. It requests that higher education institutions expand measures that prepare a workforce for new technologies and look at adding on-the-job training to degree programs.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-2291 2026-04-09T00:00:00Z

In committee. Requires the State Department of Education to study nonconsensual artificial intimate images involving K-12 pupils, including school resources, reported incidents, effects on pupils, and recommended policy revisions, and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2028.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-ab-2487 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z

In committee. Enacts the Artificial Intelligence Education and Workforce Development Act, requiring the California Community Colleges, upon appropriation, to develop statewide guidance on AI use in community colleges, fund model AI curriculum and educational resources, and support AI literacy in instructor preparation and professional development.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sb-539 2026-02-02T00:00:00Z

Did not pass. Extends school facility hardship provisions to wildfire, flood, and other emergencies, and authorizes the State Department of Education, the State Architect, and the State Allocation Board to use machine learning to automate nondiscretionary permitting steps for these school projects, and school districts to use machine learning to prepare permitting documents.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-cde-ai-guidance 2026-01-09T00:00:00Z

Current. Non-binding California Department of Education guidance for TK-12 schools, developed with the AI working group created by SB 1288. It is organized around human-centered AI, AI literacy, equitable access, academic integrity, and data privacy, and replaces the department's 2023 AI guidance.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sb-638 2025-10-07T00:00:00Z

Became law. Revises the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program and related interagency council duties; among other changes, eligible programs may document postsecondary partnerships for career pathways including artificial intelligence, and grant recipients are encouraged to develop pathway programs leading to in-demand careers including artificial intelligence.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sb-241 2025-10-01T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the instructor of record for a community college course, and other community college instructors and staff, to be persons who meet the minimum or alternative qualifications for their positions, while stating that community college staff may still use artificial intelligence tools in operations and student services.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2025-2026-sjr-2 2025-07-10T00:00:00Z

Became law. Urges the President and Congress to enact federal legislation guaranteeing rights to classified school and college workers, including notification and input on the implementation of electronic monitoring, algorithms, and artificial intelligence technology in their workplaces and training as new technologies are introduced.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-2876 2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires California's Instructional Quality Commission to consider adding AI literacy content to the mathematics, science, and history-social science curriculum frameworks when they are next revised after January 1, 2025, and to consider AI literacy in its criteria for evaluating instructional materials in those subjects. The law defines AI literacy as knowing how AI works and how to use it, including its limitations, implications, and ethical considerations.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-2885 2024-09-28T00:00:00Z

Became law. Establishes a uniform statutory definition of artificial intelligence across several California codes, including the Education Code provisions governing the California Online Community College, whose research and development unit uses machine learning and AI to build out student supports.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-sb-1288 2024-09-28T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group on artificial intelligence in public schools, at least half of whose members are current credentialed teachers. The group must develop guidance for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools by January 1, 2026, a model AI policy by July 1, 2026, and a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2027. The provisions are repealed on January 1, 2031.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-2930 2024-08-31T00:00:00Z

Did not pass. As introduced, would require deployers and developers of automated decision tools to assess them for algorithmic discrimination and would bar their use in ways that cause such discrimination in consequential decisions, which included education decisions such as assessment, detecting student cheating or plagiarism, admissions, and financial aid. The education provisions were removed by amendment, and the latest version covers employment and government benefits and services.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-2370 2024-07-02T00:00:00Z

Became law. As introduced, would bar artificial intelligence from replacing community college faculty in providing academic instruction to and regular interaction with students, allowing it only as a peripheral tool for uses such as course development, assessment, and tutoring. The chaptered version instead requires the instructor of record for a course to meet faculty minimum qualifications. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-2652 2024-05-16T00:00:00Z

Did not pass. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group of teachers, staff, administrators, faculty, industry, and pupils to assess the use of artificial intelligence in education, develop guidance for local educational agencies and charter schools on its safe use by January 1, 2026, and develop a model policy by July 1, 2026, covering academic integrity, acceptable uses, data privacy, procurement, equity, and professional development.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-sb-1235 2024-04-24T00:00:00Z

Did not pass. Requires California State University, Long Beach, in consultation with other public institutions of higher education, to establish an Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Working Group that reports annually to the Legislature. Its scoping plan may address the impact of AI and deepfakes on elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education, and its members may include education staff, teachers, faculty, and students.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-331 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did not pass. Requires deployers and developers of automated decision tools used for consequential decisions, including decisions on education and vocational training such as assessment, detecting student cheating or plagiarism, accreditation, admissions, and financial aid, to perform annual impact assessments and notify affected persons, and bars deployers from using tools that result in algorithmic discrimination.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-csu-genai-committee-report 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Current. Report of the California State University's systemwide Generative AI Advisory Committee, which first convened in January 2024. It is linked from the CSU's AI-Empowered CSU initiative page.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-2023-2024-ab-302 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z

Became law. Requires the Department of Technology to conduct and report annually on an inventory of high-risk automated decision systems proposed or used by state agencies, including the California State University. High-risk systems include those affecting access to education, and the inventory must describe measures to mitigate risks of biased decisions.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-cde-learning-with-ai 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Superseded. The California Department of Education's first, non-binding web guidance on AI in K-12 education, framed around learning with AI and learning about AI. It covers safe use and data privacy, critiquing inaccuracies and bias, AI's social impacts, and teaching the "5 Big Ideas of AI" through the state computer science standards. CDE now keeps it as an archived page beside its newer guidance.

https://edictai.org/states/ca/#us-ca-uc-ai-working-group-recommendations 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z

Current. Final report of the University of California Presidential Working Group on AI, setting out UC Responsible AI Principles and recommendations for AI use in health, human resources, policing, and the student experience, including admissions, advising, and proctoring. The UC President adopted the recommendations, establishing overarching principles and a governance process for AI deployed in UC operations.