{
  "title": "Edictai records: Virginia",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-va",
  "name": "Virginia",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-va-2026-hb-1186",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1186",
      "title": "Department of Education; artificial intelligence system use in instructional settings; development of AIS safety guidance required; AIS Innovation in Education Pilot Program established; report.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2026-01-14",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "funding",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy",
        "requires-local-ai-policy",
        "restricts-student-data-use",
        "appropriates-funding",
        "educator-pd-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the Virginia Department of Education to compile information on current classroom uses of AI and post guidance for the safe, ethical, and equitable use of AI systems in public schools, and requires each school board to adopt policies consistent with that guidance. Subject to appropriation, it also creates the AIS Innovation in Education Pilot Program to fund and evaluate AI pilots in school divisions, with annual reports to the legislature.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2026-hb-1186"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2026-hb-669",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 669",
      "title": "Impersonation of certain licensed professionals by chatbot; definitions, notice, civil liability.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2026-01-13",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "employment-evaluation",
        "instructional-use"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "prohibits-ai-replacing-educators"
      ],
      "summary": "Bars deployers from making available an artificial intelligence system that falsely presents itself as a licensed professional or provides individualized professional services that would violate licensure laws, including the Title 22.1 provisions cited in the bill (§§ 22.1-292 and 22.1-299), and requires notice to users that they are interacting with an AI system. The Attorney General enforces the section with civil penalties.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2026-hb-669"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2026-hj-32",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "joint-resolution",
      "identifier": "HJ 32",
      "title": "Higher educational institutions; JLARC to study artificial intelligence use policies.",
      "status": "passed-legislature",
      "date": "2026-01-13",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "equity-access",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "student-privacy",
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force",
        "issues-model-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to survey and evaluate artificial intelligence use policies at Virginia institutions of higher education on academic integrity, data privacy, equity, transparency, and faculty autonomy, to develop a model AI use policy, and to recommend resources for a statewide clearinghouse.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2026-hj-32"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2026-sb-394",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 394",
      "title": "Department of Education; artificial intelligence system use in instructional settings; development of AIS safety guidance required; AIS Innovation in Education Pilot Program established; report.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2026-01-13",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "funding",
        "instructional-use",
        "local-policy-requirement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy",
        "requires-local-ai-policy",
        "restricts-student-data-use",
        "appropriates-funding",
        "educator-pd-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the Virginia Department of Education to compile information on current classroom uses of AI and post guidance for the safe, ethical, and equitable use of AI systems in public schools, and requires each school board to adopt policies consistent with that guidance. Subject to appropriation, it also creates the AIS Innovation in Education Pilot Program to fund and evaluate AI pilots in school divisions, with annual reports to the legislature.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2026-sb-394"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2026-hb-171",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 171",
      "title": "Student instruction; Internet safety, policy to include key modern digital safety topics.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2026-01-06",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ai-literacy",
        "curriculum-standards",
        "safety-wellbeing"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "requires-ai-literacy-instruction",
        "issues-model-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires the internet safety component of each school division's instructional program to include instruction on modern digital safety topics, including online scams, misinformation, and content generated by artificial intelligence, and directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue guidance on those topics.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2026-hb-171"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2026-s1-hb-30",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 30",
      "title": "Budget Bill.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2025-12-17",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "funding",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "appropriates-funding",
        "ai-workforce-program"
      ],
      "summary": "Enacts the 2026-2028 budget, which includes $2,000,000 for an AI Innovation in Education Pilot Program administered by the Department of Education to support adoption of artificial intelligence software, programs, and training, and $500,000 for a pilot providing internships and apprenticeships in artificial intelligence, data science, and cybersecurity for Virginia Community College System students and graduates.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2026-s1-hb-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-2338",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 2338",
      "title": "Public education; changes relating to graduation from a public high school, etc.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-01-08",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Revises high school graduation and concurrent enrollment requirements, and directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines on how computer science and artificial intelligence courses can satisfy graduation requirements.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-2338"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-2465",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 2465",
      "title": "Va. Ed. & Workforce Data Governing Board & Office of Va. Education & Workforce Data; established.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-01-08",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "data-governance",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Establishes the Virginia Education and Workforce Data Governing Board and a supporting office to govern the state's education and workforce data ecosystem, including advisory recommendations on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and a data system with machine learning and predictive analytics capabilities for longitudinal student data.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-2465"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-sb-1214",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 1214",
      "title": "High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use by public bodies, report.",
      "status": "passed-chamber",
      "date": "2025-01-08",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Sets requirements for state public bodies that develop, deploy, or integrate high-risk artificial intelligence systems used in consequential decisions, defined to include education enrollment or an education opportunity, including documentation, acceptable use policies, and measures against algorithmic discrimination, and directs the Chief Information Officer to adopt related policies.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-sb-1214"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-2046",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 2046",
      "title": "High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use by public bodies, report.",
      "status": "failed",
      "date": "2025-01-07",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Sets requirements for state public bodies that develop, deploy, or integrate high-risk artificial intelligence systems used in consequential decisions, defined to include education enrollment or an education opportunity, including documentation, acceptable use policies, and measures against algorithmic discrimination, and directs the Chief Information Officer to adopt related policies.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-2046"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-2094",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 2094",
      "title": "High-risk artificial intelligence; definitions, development, deployment, and use, civil penalties.",
      "status": "vetoed",
      "date": "2025-01-07",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates requirements for developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems used in consequential decisions, defined to include education enrollment or an education opportunity, including disclosures, impact assessments, and measures against algorithmic discrimination, enforced by the Attorney General with civil penalties.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-2094"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-1818",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1818",
      "title": "School Safety Firearm Detection Software Pilot Program; established.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-01-06",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "funding",
        "institutional-operations",
        "safety-wellbeing"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "appropriates-funding"
      ],
      "summary": "Adds firearm detection software that uses artificial intelligence to analyze school surveillance video to the security equipment eligible for state school security grants, and creates the School Safety Firearm Detection Software Pilot Program prioritizing Title 1 schools, with annual reporting on the program's efficacy.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-1818"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2024-hb-1051",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1051",
      "title": "Public education; dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment, high school graduation.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-10",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Revises high school graduation requirements and dual and concurrent enrollment provisions, and directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines on how computer science and artificial intelligence courses can satisfy graduation requirements.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2024-hb-1051"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2024-hb-1083",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1083",
      "title": "VA Longitudinal Data System & VA Workforce Data Trust; work group to review current capabilities.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "date": "2024-01-10",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "data-governance"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "issues-model-policy"
      ],
      "summary": "Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a work group to review the Virginia Longitudinal Data System and the Virginia Workforce Data Trust and develop a work plan for improving the system. As prefiled, would have placed administration of a Virginia Education and Workforce Longitudinal Data System with the Office of Education Economics and required the system to include machine learning and predictive analytics capabilities for analyzing student and workforce data. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2024-hb-1083"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2024-sb-563",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 563",
      "title": "Regional career and technical education program; establishing in Planning District 2.",
      "status": "passed-chamber",
      "date": "2024-01-10",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "As prefiled, would revise high school graduation requirements and dual and concurrent enrollment provisions and direct the Board of Education to develop guidelines on how computer science and artificial intelligence courses can satisfy graduation requirements. The committee substitute instead directs the Department of Education, with the Virginia Community College System, to study a regional career and technical education program in Planning District 2. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2024-sb-563"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-1051",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 1051",
      "title": "Public education; dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment, high school graduation.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-10",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Revises high school graduation requirements and dual and concurrent enrollment provisions, and directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines on how computer science and artificial intelligence courses can satisfy graduation requirements.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-1051"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-sb-563",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 563",
      "title": "Regional career and technical education program; establishing in Planning District 2.",
      "status": "passed-chamber",
      "date": "2024-01-10",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "curriculum-standards"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "ai-course-or-graduation-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "As prefiled, would revise high school graduation requirements and dual and concurrent enrollment provisions and direct the Board of Education to develop guidelines on how computer science and artificial intelligence courses can satisfy graduation requirements. The committee substitute instead directs the Department of Education, with the Virginia Community College System, to study a regional career and technical education program in Planning District 2. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-sb-563"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2024-hb-747",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 747",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence Developer Act; established, civil penalty.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-09",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates operating standards for developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems used to make consequential decisions, defined to include decisions affecting access to education, including disclosures, protection against algorithmic discrimination, and impact assessments, with Attorney General enforcement.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2024-hb-747"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2024-sb-385",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "SB 385",
      "title": "Artificial intelligence technology; use in education.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-09",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "ai-literacy",
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Directs the Board of Education, with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to convene a work group to study and recommend guidelines on AI in public schools and public higher education, including academic dishonesty, equity, educator training, acceptable use policies, and AI literacy, and to report by November 1, 2024.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2024-sb-385"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-2025-hb-747",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "HB 747",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence Developer Act; established, civil penalty.",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-09",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Creates operating standards for developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems used to make consequential decisions, defined to include decisions affecting access to education, including disclosures, protection against algorithmic discrimination, and impact assessments, with Attorney General enforcement.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-2025-hb-747"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-va-soe-ai-education-guidelines",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "guidance",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Guidelines for AI Integration Throughout Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "",
      "issuer": "us-va-governor",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "ai-literacy",
        "educator-training",
        "equity-access",
        "instructional-use",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Guidelines from the Virginia Secretary of Education setting guiding principles for AI in K-12 and higher education (including \"do no harm,\" integrity, and augmenting rather than replacing teachers), strategies for integration, and roles for the Virginia Department of Education, SCHEV, local governing boards, and educators, such as creating AI policy resources, approval processes for AI tools, and training.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/va/#us-va-soe-ai-education-guidelines"
    }
  ]
}