Sponsor
Richard Lynn Scott
Senator · R-FL
Senator · R-FL
The bill seeks to boost K–12 AI literacy and provide school-based counseling for AI-related harms by empowering schools to create curricula and programs, but it introduces privacy risks, new costs, and implementation ambiguity for schools, students, and families.
K–12 students will receive school-supported instruction on AI dangers, limitations, and responsible use, improving digital literacy and safer technology use.
Students experiencing AI-related mental-health issues will have access to school counseling services, expanding behavioral-health support and connections to care.
Schools and local education agencies will receive explicit authority and support to develop AI curricula and counseling programs, enabling targeted resource use and potential grant funding or technical assistance.
Students and families could face increased monitoring of app and platform use as schools define and address AI-chatbot harms, raising privacy and surveillance concerns.
Schools and local governments may incur new costs to implement AI curricula and expanded counseling, forcing budget reallocations or added funding pressure.
Teachers and administrators may face uncertainty and added administrative burden because a broad definition of “artificial intelligence chatbot” could capture many consumer tools, creating compliance ambiguity about which technologies require curricular or counseling responses.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds AI and AI-chatbot definitions to ESEA and permits/supports K–12 counseling and education on AI risks, limits, and responsible use.
Official title: Amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable schools to teach elementary school and secondary school students about the dangers, limitations, and responsible use of artificial intelligence technologies, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 14, 2026 by Richard Lynn Scott · Last progress July 14, 2026
Adds AI-related definitions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and updates K–12 program rules so school counseling and allowable supports can address mental health issues tied to AI chatbot use. Requires support for schools to teach students about AI dangers, limitations, and responsible use.