AI Frontier Institute

In student supports, providing for artificial intelligence policy.

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HB 2786 (Printer's No. 4006, as amended in the House Education Committee) has not been enacted. It was reported from committee and laid on the table on 2026-10-06. If enacted, it would add Section 1303.3-A, "Artificial Intelligence Policy," to the Public School Code of 1949. By the start of the 2027-2028 school year, the governing body of every school entity and nonpublic school would have to adopt an AI policy, and it would have to seek input from instructional staff while developing it. "School entity" means a school district, area career and technical school, intermediate unit, cyber charter school, charter school or regional charter school. At a minimum the policy must: (1) define appropriate and prohibited uses of generative AI for instructional, administrative and communication purposes; (2) require ethical use, including data entry restrictions, vendor contractual safeguards, and compliance with FERPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act and COPPA; (3) address academic integrity, including plagiarism, disclosure, citation and AI detection software; and (4) set consequences for students and employes who misuse AI or violate the policy. Under subsection (c), the policy must affirm ethical use. That includes prohibiting generative AI from making final decisions on employe recruitment, hiring, retention, promotion, transfer, evaluation, demotion or dismissal, which would be left to an authorized human employe. It also includes prohibiting generative AI from making final determinations on graduation, promotion, grading, discipline, placement and retention, or on IEP development, placement, evaluations, reviews and revisions. The policy must also include enforceable vendor safeguards (student data privacy and security, breach notification, data deletion at contract end, vendor accountability) and a statement that student and employe personally identifiable information is not collected, disclosed or retained by AI tools. It must name the employes responsible for evaluating, approving and overseeing AI tools. Schools may, but need not, train instructional employes in AI literacy (subsection (b)). Each school must post the policy on its website, if it has one (subsection (d)). It must also review the policy at least every two years and discuss it at a public meeting, and it must update any existing AI policy to comply (subsection (e)). The text of subsection (e) still shows amendment markings, with some competing language about giving the Department of Education an updated copy. Within 90 days of the effective date, the Department of Education must publish guidelines to help schools implement the section and revise them regularly (subsection (f)). The bill does not override employe or union rights under federal or state law, the Public Employe Relations Act, or collective bargaining agreements (subsection (g)). Section 2 makes the act effective immediately.

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