An act relating to students, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 2371                 By: Hill

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to students; authorizing Oklahoma

    Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

8   Services to solicit certain proposals; requiring

    cooperation with State Department of Education;

9   soliciting pilot programs for certain artificial

    intelligence monitoring; providing criteria for

10  proposals; authorizing Oklahoma Department of Mental

    Health and Substance Abuse Services to establish

11  criteria and process; requiring cooperation with

    State Department of Education; authorizing

12  termination of pilot programs for certain reason;

    creating the AI School Safety Pilot Programs

13  Revolving Fund; providing for codification; and

    providing an effective date.

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16 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

17  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

18 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 24-162 of Title 70, unless there

19 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

20  A. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

21 Services, in cooperation with the Oklahoma State Department of

22 Education, shall solicit proposals for, and if funds are available,

23 make grants to local boards of education for the establishment of

24 pilot programs that utilize artificial intelligence (AI) software as

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1 a safety tool to monitor school issued devices. The proposals for

2 the pilot programs shall create an AI inference engine that provides

3 school districts with precise insights into student safety and

4 readiness to learn and utilize CIPA complaint web filtering and

5 other existing and approved data channels to produce a report

6 concerning a student's readiness to learn, interests, general well-

7 being, and other multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) without

8 requiring direct surveillance of students. Funding may cover the

9 cost of software, equipment, materials, personnel, and any other

10 start-up costs of developing the pilot program. Programs may

11 involve entire districts, combinations of districts, combinations of

12 schools, or elements of schools individually or in combination.

13  B. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

14 Services, in cooperation with the Oklahoma State Department of

15 Education, shall determine pilot program criteria and establish a

16 process for the consideration of proposals. Such proposals for

17 pilot programs shall be considered on a statewide competitive basis.

18  C. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

19 Services and the State Board of Education shall each have the

20 authority to require termination of a pilot program or its

21 continuation at any time that it finds such termination to be in the

22 best interests of the students involved.

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1   SECTION 2.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

2 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 26-163 of Title 70, unless there

3 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

4   There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund

5 for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

6 Services to be designated the "AI School Safety Pilot Programs

7 Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject

8 to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received

9 by the Department from state appropriations provided for the purpose

10 of implementing the provisions of Section 1 of this act. All monies

11 accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may

12 be budgeted and expended by the Department for the purpose provided

13 for in this subsection. Expenditures from the fund shall be made

14 upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as

15 prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and

16 Enterprise Services for approval and payment.

17  SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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