{
  "title": "Edictai records: Massachusetts",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-ma",
  "name": "Massachusetts",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-ma-2025-2026-h-3983",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 3983",
      "title": "Relative to establishing a workforce training trust fund for emerging technologies",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-04-03",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "funding",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "appropriates-funding"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates an Emerging Technologies Workforce Training Trust Fund that provides grants to institutions of higher education, vocational technical schools, and workforce training organizations for training programs in blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and renewable energy, along with scholarships and internships in those fields.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-2025-2026-h-3983"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-2025-2026-h-614",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 614",
      "title": "Relative to issuing guidance regarding setting policies for the use of AI in schools",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-27",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy",
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to issue and annually publish guidelines for school districts and charter schools on student and educator use of artificial intelligence, covering benefits and limitations, safe use, equity implications, and factors for setting local AI policies, after at least three public hearings.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-2025-2026-h-614"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-2025-2026-h-94",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 94",
      "title": "To ensure accountability and transparency in artificial intelligence systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-27",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates an AI accountability and consumer protection chapter that treats AI systems materially influencing consequential decisions, including education opportunities, as high-risk. Requires developers and deployers to address algorithmic discrimination, notify consumers, explain decisions, and offer appeals, enforced by the attorney general.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-2025-2026-h-94"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-2025-2026-h-97",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 97",
      "title": "Protecting consumers in interactions with artificial intelligence systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-27",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Regulates developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems that make or substantially factor into consequential decisions, including education enrollment or opportunities. Requires documentation, impact assessments, and measures against algorithmic discrimination.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-2025-2026-h-97"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-2025-2026-s-429",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "S 429",
      "title": "To establish a commission to investigate AI in education",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-27",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "equity-access",
        "instructional-use",
        "student-privacy",
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates a commission within the executive office of education to study the use of AI in education, survey uses of generative AI and automated decision systems in school systems, and recommend guidelines for ethical AI use in teaching and learning, data protection, plagiarism policies, watermarking, and equitable AI use.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-2025-2026-s-429"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-dese-integrating-ai-task-force-recommendations",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "report",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Integrating Artificial Intelligence: Massachusetts AI Task Force Recommendations",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "2024-12",
      "issuer": "us-ma-k12-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Recommendations from an AI Task Force convened by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education with ISTE+ASCD in summer and fall 2024. Developed through an equity lens, it recommends state actions in three areas: resource creation and curation, professional development, and policy supports for districts.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-dese-integrating-ai-task-force-recommendations"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-2023-2024-s-2710",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "S 2710",
      "title": "Site Information & Links",
      "status": "introduced",
      "date": "2024-03-21",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "synthetic-media"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "addresses-deepfakes"
      ],
      "summary": "Directs the Office of the Child Advocate, consulting the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and others, to create an educational diversion program on sexting that covers the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence, with materials made available to school districts. Directs the department to encourage districts to teach media literacy using content from that program.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-2023-2024-s-2710"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-eo-629",
      "record_type": "executive-action",
      "classification": "executive-order",
      "identifier": "No. 629",
      "title": "Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Strategic Task Force",
      "status": "expired",
      "date": "2024-02-15",
      "issuer": "us-ma-governor",
      "education_levels": [
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "task-force",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Governor Maura Healey's order creating an AI Strategic Task Force, led by the secretaries of economic development and technology services, to study AI's impact on the state, including on higher education institutions, and advise the Governor. Members include higher education representatives, and objectives include assessing AI's workforce impacts and training needs.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-eo-629"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ma-dese-ai-guidance",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "guidance",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Massachusetts Guidance for Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "",
      "issuer": "us-ma-k12-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "ai-literacy",
        "data-governance",
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy",
        "synthetic-media"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy",
        "procurement-standards"
      ],
      "summary": "Guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, developed with its AI Task Force and ISTE+ASCD, to help district leaders create or refine local AI guidance and policies. It sets core principles for AI use, including data privacy and security, an implementation framework and self-assessment for districts, and a summary of legal foundations covering student privacy, civil rights, procurement, and deepfakes.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ma/#us-ma-dese-ai-guidance"
    }
  ]
}