{
  "title": "Edictai records: Mississippi",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-ms",
  "name": "Mississippi",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2026-hb-1242",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1242",
      "title": "Mississippi Dyslexia Generative Artificial Intelligence Education and Workforce Development Act; create.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2026-01-19",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "funding",
        "instructional-use",
        "research"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "appropriates-funding",
        "educator-pd-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates a Mississippi Dyslexia Generative Artificial Intelligence Education and Workforce Development Program within the Department of Education to develop an open-access dyslexia curriculum and generative AI system for public schools, correctional, adult and workforce education. Directs the department to contract with founding partners for development, research and professional development, and to run pilot programs in at least three public school districts.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2026-hb-1242"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2026-hb-1605",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1605",
      "title": "MS Artifical Intelligence and Stem Eduaction Act; create.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2026-01-19",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "employment-evaluation",
        "equity-access",
        "funding",
        "instructional-use",
        "student-privacy",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "appropriates-funding",
        "educator-pd-requirement",
        "restricts-student-data-use",
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Authorizes the Department of Education to establish an AI and STEM Education Pilot Program letting school districts use AI-assisted learning tools in grades 6-12 STEM subjects, with priority for underperforming, rural and high-poverty schools. Requires educator professional development, bars use of the tools for teacher evaluation or employment decisions, restricts use of student data, and directs guidelines on algorithmic bias and human oversight.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2026-hb-1605"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2026-sb-2294",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 2294",
      "title": "Education; institute initiatives to promote literacy in math, reading, finance, computer science, and civics.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2026-01-19",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement",
        "requires-ai-literacy-instruction"
      ],
      "summary": "Enacts multiple K-12 literacy initiatives, including a requirement that public high school students earn a unit of computer science or CTE with embedded computer science credit before graduation. The qualifying course must include instruction on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, including what AI is, how it works, and its impact on society.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2026-sb-2294"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2026-sb-2429",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 2429",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force Act; enact.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2026-01-19",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "curriculum-standards",
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy",
        "task-force",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates an Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force chaired by the State Superintendent of Education to evaluate AI applications in K-12 and develop policy recommendations for responsible use by students and educators. The task force must address academic integrity, acceptable use, data privacy, AI in K-12 standards and higher education curricula, educator training guidelines, procurement requirements for AI software, and equitable access.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2026-sb-2429"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2026-hb-1035",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1035",
      "title": "MS Future Innovators Act; enact to require high school computer science or CTE with embedded computer science course.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2026-01-16",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement",
        "requires-ai-literacy-instruction"
      ],
      "summary": "Enacts the Mississippi Future Innovators Act, requiring public high school students, beginning with the 2029-2030 ninth-grade class, to earn one unit of credit in computer science or a CTE course with embedded computer science. The qualifying course must include instruction on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, including what AI is, how it works, and its impact on society.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2026-hb-1035"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2025-sb-2426",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 2426",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence Task Force; create and prescribe responsibilities of.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-01-20",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AIR) Task Force to study AI applications, risks, and policy options for Mississippi and report recommendations to the Legislature each year by December 1. Its ex officio expert members include people from K-12 education and from four-year and two-year postsecondary education; the task force dissolves December 31, 2027.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2025-sb-2426"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2025-sb-2535",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 2535",
      "title": "MS Future Innovators Act; enact to require high-school computer science or CTE with embedded computer science course.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-01-20",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement",
        "requires-ai-literacy-instruction"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires public high school students, beginning with the 2027-2028 ninth-grade class, to earn one unit of credit in computer science or a CTE course with embedded computer science. The qualifying course must include instruction on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, including what AI is, how it works, and its impact on society.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2025-sb-2535"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2025-sb-2059",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 2059",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force Act; enact.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-01-17",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "curriculum-standards",
        "educator-training",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy",
        "task-force",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates an Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force chaired by the State Superintendent of Education to evaluate AI applications in K-12 and develop policy recommendations for responsible use by students and educators. The task force must address academic integrity, acceptable use, data privacy, AI in K-12 standards and higher education curricula, educator training guidelines, and common procurement requirements for AI software.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2025-sb-2059"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-2024-sb-2062",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 2062",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force Act; enact.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2024-01-18",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "curriculum-standards",
        "educator-training",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy",
        "task-force",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates an Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force chaired by the State Superintendent of Education to evaluate AI applications in K-12 and develop policy recommendations for responsible use by students and educators. The task force must address academic integrity, acceptable use, data privacy, AI in K-12 standards and higher education curricula, educator training guidelines, and common procurement requirements for AI software.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-2024-sb-2062"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-ms-mde-ai-guidance-k12-classrooms",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "guidance",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence: Guidance for K-12 Classrooms",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "",
      "issuer": "us-ms-k12-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "educator-training",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Mississippi Department of Education guidance offering procedural advice and instructional strategies to district leaders, school leaders, and teachers on appropriate AI use in schools. It covers digital citizenship, strategies to deter cheating and plagiarism, standards-aligned content, formative assessment, accessibility, considerations for writing an AI use policy, and staff training.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/ms/#us-ms-mde-ai-guidance-k12-classrooms"
    }
  ]
}