Pennsylvania House Bills Would Require District AI Policies and Fund Teacher Training

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has introduced a package of bills to regulate artificial intelligence in schools. Rep. Brandon Dukes would require every school district to adopt an AI policy protecting teacher and student privacy and preventing AI cheating; Rep. Melissa Shusterman would bar schools from using AI chatbots for mental and behavioral health services; Rep. Chris Pielli would create a grant program for teacher professional development on AI in the classroom; and Rep. Peter Schweyer's bill would make it easier for districts and public charter schools to acquire only the safest and most ethical AI education programs.

The bills would directly change the compliance conditions for AI education products entering Pennsylvania public schools: procurement standards, privacy requirements and teacher training funding all affect whether districts can adopt a product. For parents and students, mental and behavioral health services are explicitly carved out from AI chatbot use, while privacy and anti-cheating requirements would enter mandatory district policy. These remain House proposals and have not been confirmed as passed or in effect, and the column gives no funding amounts, implementation timeline or number of districts covered. If districts are required to adopt AI policies, privacy, data and anti-cheating terms in AI education products become preconditions for procurement. Barring AI chatbots from mental and behavioral health services narrows that campus product category and reinforces the requirement for human professional involvement.