https://edictai.org/states/sc/feed.xml 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z Edictai https://edictai.org/states/sc/#us-sc-2025-2026-s-963 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z

In committee. Enacts the Consumer Protections in Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems Act, prohibiting algorithmic discrimination by high-risk AI systems and setting duties for developers and deployers. High-risk systems include those that make or substantially factor into consequential decisions on education enrollment or education opportunities.

https://edictai.org/states/sc/#us-sc-2025-2026-h-5253 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z

In committee. Would add Section 59-28-195 to the South Carolina Code to require written opt-in parental consent before students use AI in instruction, annual disclosure of AI tools and data practices, teacher review of AI-generated content, and limits on student data collection and commercial use. It would bar AI from replacing licensed teachers in core instruction or final grading and from automated discipline or placement decisions without human review, and would let parents seek injunctive relief or damages.

https://edictai.org/states/sc/#us-sc-2025-2026-h-4582 2026-01-13T00:00:00Z

In committee. Allows school districts, beginning in 2026-2027, to provide age-appropriate instruction on how to access, use and critically evaluate artificial intelligence tools. Directs the Department of Education to issue guidance on that instruction and, subject to funding, to provide professional development in AI education for educators.

https://edictai.org/states/sc/#us-sc-2025-2026-s-28 2025-05-27T00:00:00Z

Became law. Creates the offense of producing, distributing, soliciting, or possessing obscene visual depictions of minors, including computer-generated images, without requiring that the minor depicted actually exists, and adds it to the sex offender registry. Directs the State Department of Education, with state law enforcement and the Attorney General, to develop and implement a policy to educate and notify students of the act, and to report on it by July 1, 2026.

https://edictai.org/states/sc/#us-sc-scde-introduction-to-ai-course-standards 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z

Current. South Carolina Department of Education course standards, dated September 2023, for an Introduction to Artificial Intelligence elective (course code 57M0) in the career and technical education Information Technology cluster. The one-credit course, recommended for grades 9-10, covers computing systems, data and analytics, and core AI and machine learning concepts.