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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to add Sections 44007.5 and 44932.5 to, and to add Article 12 (commencing with Section 66095) to Chapter 2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of, the Education Code, relating to public educational employment.</ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Local educational agency employees: public postsecondary education employees: artificial intelligence, automated decision systems, and educational technology: discipline.</ns0:Subject>
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(1)
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Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools employ personnel to provide instruction to and services for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites throughout the state.
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<html:p>This bill would explicitly define, for purposes of certain provisions relating to the employment of school employees, an “employee” or
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Existing law prohibits a permanent certificated school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes, including, among other causes, persistent violation of or refusal to obey the school laws of the state or reasonable regulations prescribed for the government of the public schools by the State Board of Education or by the governing board of the school district employing the permanent employee. Existing law subjects a permanent classified employee to disciplinary action only for cause, as prescribed by rule or regulation of the governing board of the school district or community college district.
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<html:p>Existing law establishes the University of
California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the public segments of postsecondary education in the state.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group, composed as provided, for specific purposes related to artificial intelligence in public schools, as specified. Existing law requires, among other things, the working group to develop, on or before January 1, 2026, guidance for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools on the safe use of artificial intelligence in education, and to, on or before July 1, 2026, develop a model policy for those local educational agencies regarding the safe and effective use of artificial
intelligence in ways that benefit, and do not negatively impact, pupils and educators, as provided. Existing law requires the working group to, on or before January 1, 2027, report its findings and recommendations to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, as provided.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would prohibit a certificated or classified employee of a local educational agency or an academic or classified employee of a segment of public postsecondary education from being dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against (A) for refusing to use, refusing to deploy, or refusing to direct students to, any form of educational technology, or (B) based on any information on that employee that is transmitted, acquired, collected, or produced via artificial intelligence or automated decision system output. The bill would prohibit a local educational agency or segment of public postsecondary education from deploying
educational technology in the workplace unless (A) it enables employees to quickly and easily turn off, pause, or otherwise refuse to use the educational technology, and (B) the local educational agency, segment of public postsecondary education, or the employee, is not charged anything of value for turning off, pausing, or otherwise refusing to use the educational technology. The bill would request the University of California to comply with these provisions.</html:p>
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Section 44007.5 is added to the
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Section 44932.5 is added to the
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(a)
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(1)
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Notwithstanding any other law, an educator shall not be dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against for refusing to use, refusing to deploy, or refusing to direct pupils to, any form of educational technology.
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(2)
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A local educational agency shall not deploy any form of educational technology in the workplace unless it complies with both of the following:
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(A)
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It enables educators to quickly and easily turn off, pause, or otherwise refuse to use the educational technology.
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(B)
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Neither the local educational agency nor the educator is
charged anything of value for turning off, pausing, or otherwise refusing to use the educational technology.
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(b)
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Notwithstanding any other law, an educator shall not be dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against based on any information on that educator that is transmitted, acquired, collected, or produced via artificial intelligence or ADS output.
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(c)
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For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
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(1)
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“ADS output” means any information, data, assumptions, predictions, scoring, recommendations, decisions, or conclusions generated by an ADS.
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(2)
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“Artificial intelligence” has the same meaning as specified paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 33328.5.
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(3)
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“Automated decision system” or “ADS” means any computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. “Automated decision system” does not include a spam email filter, firewall, antivirus software, identity and access management tools, calculator, database, dataset, or other compilation of data.
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(4)
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“Educational technology” means educational software in the form of downloadable or web-based applications, or other digital formats, that is used to manage information, instruction, attendance, pupil grades and assessment data, notifications, or communication with parents.
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(5)
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“Educator” means a certificated or classified employee of a local educational agency.
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(6)
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“Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
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Article 12 (commencing with Section 66095) is added to Chapter 2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the
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(a)
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(1)
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Notwithstanding any other law, an educator shall not be dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against for refusing to use, refusing to deploy, or refusing to direct students to, any form of educational technology.
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(2)
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An employer shall not deploy any form of educational technology in the workplace unless it complies with both of the following:
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(A)
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It enables educators to quickly and easily turn off, pause, or otherwise refuse to use the educational technology.
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(B)
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Neither the employer nor the educator is charged anything of value for
turning off, pausing, or otherwise refusing to use the educational technology.
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(b)
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Notwithstanding any other law, an educator shall not be dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against based on any information on that educator that is transmitted, acquired, collected, or produced via artificial intelligence or ADS output.
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(c)
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For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:
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(1)
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“ADS output” means any information, data, assumptions, predictions, scoring, recommendations, decisions, or conclusions generated by an ADS.
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(2)
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“Artificial intelligence” has the same meaning as specified paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 33328.5.
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(3)
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“Automated decision system” or “ADS” means any computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. “Automated decision system” does not include a spam email filter, firewall, antivirus software, identity and access management tools, calculator, database, dataset, or other compilation of data.
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(4)
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“Educational technology” means educational software in the form of downloadable or web-based applications, or other digital formats, that is used to manage information, instruction, attendance, student grades and assessment data, notifications, or communications.
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(5)
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“Educator” means an academic or classified
employee of the University of California, the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, or a community college district.
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“Employer” means the University of California, the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, or a community college district.
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(d)
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The California State University, the California Community Colleges, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and a community college district shall, and the University of California is requested to, comply with the requirements of this article.
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