{
  "title": "Edictai records: Vermont",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "jurisdiction": "us-vt",
  "name": "Vermont",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "us-vt-eo-04-26",
      "record_type": "executive-action",
      "classification": "executive-order",
      "identifier": "Executive Order No. 04-26",
      "title": "Establishing the Vermont AI Economic Taskforce",
      "status": "active",
      "date": "2026-05-18",
      "issuer": "us-vt-governor",
      "education_levels": [
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "task-force",
        "workforce"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Governor Phil Scott created an advisory Vermont AI Economic Taskforce to assess AI's effect on the state economy sector by sector and recommend actions, investments, and legislation. Members include an education-sector representative, and the taskforce must coordinate with institutions of higher education on workforce initiatives. Annual reports are due January 1, 2027 and January 1, 2028; the order runs two years unless extended.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-eo-04-26"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-812",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 812",
      "title": "An act relating to data loyalty",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2026-01-29",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Regulates how businesses collect, share, and sell Vermont consumers' personal data, and requires data loyalty assessments of covered algorithms that use machine learning or artificial intelligence, including steps to mitigate harms in determining access to education and other opportunities.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-812"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-821",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 821",
      "title": "An act relating to artificial intelligence",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2026-01-29",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Adds members to the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council, including a public education representative, extends the Council to 2030, and directs it to review professional guidance and report on ways government can promote ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence in health and human services and in education. Also requires disclosure of generative AI use to consumers.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-821"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-792",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 792",
      "title": "An act relating to liability standards for developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2026-01-28",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Sets products liability standards for developers and deployers of high-impact and generative artificial intelligence systems, including design defect, failure to warn, and safe harbor rules. High-impact systems include those used as a controlling factor in consequential decisions, defined to include decisions affecting access to education.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-792"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-aoe-ai-guidance-for-education",
      "record_type": "document",
      "classification": "guidance",
      "identifier": "",
      "title": "Vermont AI Guidance for Education",
      "status": "current",
      "date": "2026-01-23",
      "issuer": "us-vt-k12-agency",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "academic-integrity",
        "ai-literacy",
        "equity-access",
        "instructional-use",
        "procurement",
        "safety-wellbeing",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Vermont Agency of Education guidance (Version 1.0) on using AI in schools, framed around personalized, proficiency-based, and project-based learning. It sets developmental expectations by grade band, a four-principles framework for educator and student use, and risk guidance on academic honesty, cognitive offloading, data privacy, student well-being, and bias, plus a tool-vetting framework and implementation steps for school leaders.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-aoe-ai-guidance-for-education"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-714",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 714",
      "title": "An act relating to automated employment decision making and State employees",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2026-01-16",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "employment-evaluation",
        "task-force"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "creates-task-force"
      ],
      "summary": "Requires state agencies to disclose to employees their use of automated employment decision-making tools, including AI, and creates a study committee to examine extending the disclosure requirement and protections to teachers and other public school employees and to employees of public institutions of higher education.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-714"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-650",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H.650",
      "title": "An act relating to educational technology products",
      "status": "passed-chamber",
      "date": "2026-01-13",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "data-governance",
        "procurement",
        "student-privacy"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "procurement-standards",
        "restricts-student-data-use"
      ],
      "summary": "Would require providers of student-facing educational technology products used in Vermont schools to register annually with the Secretary of State, and would bar schools from using products the Secretary of State has not certified. Certification standards must consider design features including use of artificial intelligence, and certified products could not collect non-essential student data or use it for sale or noneducational profiling. Passed the House in March 2026 and was referred to Senate Finance.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-650"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-340",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 340",
      "title": "An act relating to regulating developers and deployers of certain automated decision systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-25",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "admissions",
        "assessment",
        "equity-access"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Regulates developers and deployers of automated decision systems used in consequential decisions, with duties to avoid algorithmic discrimination, audits, reporting, and risk management programs. Consequential decisions include educational and vocational training decisions such as assessment or grading, cheating or plagiarism detection, admissions or enrollment, and financial aid.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-340"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2025-2026-h-341",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 341",
      "title": "An act relating to creating oversight and safety standards for developers and deployers of inherently dangerous artificial intelligence systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2025-02-25",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Creates oversight and safety standards for developers and deployers of high-risk, dual-use foundation, and generative artificial intelligence systems, with high-risk systems including those used in consequential decisions defined to include access to education, and requires safety and impact assessments submitted to the Division of Artificial Intelligence.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2025-2026-h-341"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2023-2024-h-710",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 710",
      "title": "An act relating to regulating developers and deployers of certain artificial intelligence systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-09",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [
        "bias-or-equity-requirement"
      ],
      "summary": "Regulates developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems that make consequential decisions, defined to include access to education, by requiring reasonable care against algorithmic discrimination, documentation, and impact assessments, and also sets impact assessment duties for generative AI developers.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2023-2024-h-710"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-vt-2023-2024-h-711",
      "record_type": "legislation",
      "classification": "bill",
      "identifier": "H 711",
      "title": "An act relating to creating oversight and liability standards for developers and deployers of inherently dangerous artificial intelligence systems",
      "status": "in-committee",
      "date": "2024-01-09",
      "issuer": "",
      "education_levels": [
        "k12",
        "postsecondary"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "equity-access",
        "institutional-operations"
      ],
      "provision_types": [],
      "summary": "Creates oversight and liability standards for developers and deployers of high-risk, dual-use foundation, and generative artificial intelligence systems, with high-risk systems including those used in consequential decisions defined to include access to education, and requires safety and impact assessments submitted to the Division of Artificial Intelligence.",
      "page_url": "https://edictai.org/states/vt/#us-vt-2023-2024-h-711"
    }
  ]
}