{
  "title": "Edictai records: Georgia",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-ga",
  "name": "Georgia",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-hb-1269",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1269",
      "title": "Quality Basic Education Act; content standards for digital literacy instruction; provide",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2026-02-10",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards",
        "safety-wellbeing"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-in-standards",
        "requires-ai-literacy-instruction"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 digital literacy content standards that address, among other things, evaluating information using or generated by artificial intelligence; requires local boards to provide digital literacy instruction beginning in 2027-28; and requires Department of Education model programs to include responsible and discerning use of AI and generative AI.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-hb-1269"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-hb-1114",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1114",
      "title": "Quality Basic Education Act; allow for students in ninth and tenth grade to complete the high school graduation financial literacy course requirement",
      "status": "passed-legislature",
      "date": "2026-01-29",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards",
        "safety-wellbeing"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-in-standards",
        "requires-ai-literacy-instruction"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 digital literacy content standards that address, among other things, evaluating information using or generated by artificial intelligence; requires local boards to provide digital literacy instruction beginning in 2027-28; and requires Department of Education model programs to include responsible and discerning use of AI and generative AI. Also revises financial literacy instruction and bars schools from partnering with gambling enterprises.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-hb-1114"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-usg-policy-6-28-ai-academic-contexts",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "policy",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Board of Regents Policy 6.28 Artificial Intelligence in Academic Contexts",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "2025-12",
      "issuer": "us-ga-higher-ed-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "requires-local-ai-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "University System of Georgia Board of Regents policy requiring every USG institution to develop and implement policies or procedures for the ethical, responsible, and secure use of AI in academic contexts. Institutional rules must cover, at minimum, topics such as the definition of AI, ethical principles, accountability for AI-generated content, training for faculty, staff, and students, and student privacy.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-usg-policy-6-28-ai-academic-contexts"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-sb-249",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 249",
      "title": "\"Quality Basic Education Act,\"; beginning in the 2031-2032 school year, a computer science course shall be a high school graduation requirement; provide",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-02-24",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-in-standards"
      ],
      "summary": "Makes a computer science course a high school graduation requirement beginning in 2031-32, defines computer science to include artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, allows certain computer science courses to substitute for other credits, and provides grants for computer science teacher professional development subject to appropriations.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-sb-249"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-hb-487",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 487",
      "title": "Quality Basic Education Act; computer science course shall be a high school graduation requirement beginning in 2031; provide",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-02-18",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Would have made a computer science course, or a career, technical, and agricultural education course with embedded computer science, a high school graduation requirement beginning in the 2031-2032 school year, and revised the statutory definition of computer science to include artificial intelligence. It was read twice in the House and received no further action; the same requirement was later enacted through SB 179.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-hb-487"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-sb-179",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 179",
      "title": "Education; the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided within five days; require",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-02-13",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement",
        "ai-in-standards"
      ],
      "summary": "As enacted, makes a computer science course, or a career, technical, and agricultural education course with embedded computer science, a high school graduation requirement beginning in the 2031-2032 school year for students graduating in 2037 or later, and adds artificial intelligence and computer science ethics to the statutory definition of computer science. The final version also raises the Georgia Virtual School per-course charge, requires schools to allow patriotic societies to speak with students, and revises the definition of private school; the listed caption reflects the bill as first introduced.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-sb-179"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-sb-167",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 167",
      "title": "Commerce and Trade; private entities that employ certain AI systems to guard against discrimination caused by such systems; provide",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-02-12",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "admissions",
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Regulates private entities' use of automated decision systems in consequential decisions, including education enrollment or education opportunities, requiring developers and deployers to evaluate systems for algorithmic discrimination, disclose risks, and notify consumers when such systems are used.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-sb-167"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-2025-2026-sb-37",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 37",
      "title": "\"AI Accountability Act\"; enact",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-01-27",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "data-governance",
        "equity-access",
        "local-policy-requirement"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "requires-local-ai-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Enacts the AI Accountability Act, requiring every governmental entity, defined to include school systems, to publish and maintain an AI system usage plan covering goals, bias avoidance, data privacy, governance roles, human oversight, employee training, and incident response, and creating the Georgia Board for Artificial Intelligence to guide those plans.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-2025-2026-sb-37"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-gadoe-leveraging-ai-k12",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "guidance",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Leveraging AI in the K-12 Setting",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "2025-01-21",
      "issuer": "us-ga-k12-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "educator-training",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "procurement-standards",
        "restricts-student-data-use",
        "academic-integrity-rules"
      ],
      "summary": "Georgia Department of Education guidance on ethical, effective, and secure use of AI in K-12 public schools. It cautions against high-stakes uses of AI, sets practices for protecting personally identifiable information, outlines a process for districts to adopt AI policies and vet tools (with a sample evaluation rubric), and covers professional learning, classroom use expectations, and attribution of AI-generated work.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-gadoe-leveraging-ai-k12"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ga-usg-it-handbook-ai-guidelines",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "guidance",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence Guidelines: A USG IT Handbook Companion Guide",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "2024-07-12",
      "issuer": "us-ga-higher-ed-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "data-governance",
        "institutional-operations",
        "procurement"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Companion guide to the USG IT Handbook for USG organizations considering, procuring, implementing, and maintaining AI solutions. It addresses supplier and organizational responsibilities, data protection, training, bias, accuracy, and misuse.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ga/#us-ga-usg-it-handbook-ai-guidelines"
    }
  ]
}