WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 1 REQUIREMENT TYPE
How Is This Bill Enforced
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1(a) 1 A board of education of a school district and a board of trustees of a charter school or renaissance school project that utilizes a surveillance system, including a video surveillance system, x-ray machine, or body scanner, with artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence"Artificial intelligence" means the development of software and hardware and the end-use application of technologies that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including, but not limited to, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, translation between languages, and generative artificial intelligence, which generates new content in response to user inputs of data.Section 1(d) capabilities shall be required to adopt a policy regarding the use of the surveillance system. The policy, at a minimum, shall: (1) include information on the surveillance system installed in the district or school; (2) identify the type of information that is to be collected through the surveillance system; (3) include information on how the board plans to utilize the information obtained through the surveillance system; (4) address the board's plan to provide access to the information obtained through the surveillance system, in compliance with State and federal law governing student records and the provisions of the Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement Between Education and Law Enforcement Officials; and (5) require the board to post signage in a prominent, public place in buildings and on school grounds where the surveillance system may be used. The signage shall indicate that a surveillance system with artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence"Artificial intelligence" means the development of software and hardware and the end-use application of technologies that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including, but not limited to, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, translation between languages, and generative artificial intelligence, which generates new content in response to user inputs of data.Section 1(d) capabilities is in use in the building or on the school grounds.
1(b) 1 The policy adopted by the board of education of a school district or the board of trustees of a charter school or renaissance school project that utilizes a video surveillance system shall comply with the provisions of section 1 of P.L.2017, c.119 (C.18A:41-9).
1(c) 2 A board of education or board of trustees required to establish a policy pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be required to distribute the policy to the parents and guardians of students within the district or school.
1(d) As used in this section, "artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence"Artificial intelligence" means the development of software and hardware and the end-use application of technologies that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including, but not limited to, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, translation between languages, and generative artificial intelligence, which generates new content in response to user inputs of data.Section 1(d)" means the development of software and hardware and the end-use application of technologies that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including, but not limited to, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, translation between languages, and generative artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence"Artificial intelligence" means the development of software and hardware and the end-use application of technologies that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, including, but not limited to, visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, translation between languages, and generative artificial intelligence, which generates new content in response to user inputs of data.Section 1(d), which generates new content in response to user inputs of data.
Section 1 is the bill's sole operative provision. It requires any board of education or board of trustees that uses a surveillance system with artificial intelligence capabilities — including video surveillance, x-ray machines, or body scanners — to adopt a written policy governing the system's use. The policy must address five enumerated elements: a description of the system, the data it collects, how the data will be used, access controls consistent with student-records law and the Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement, and posted signage notifying the school community that AI-equipped surveillance is in use.
The section also requires boards to distribute the adopted policy to parents and guardians, and mandates that any video surveillance policy comply with existing law under P.L.2017, c.119 (C.18A:41-9). The definition of artificial intelligence in subsection (d) is notably broad, encompassing visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, language translation, and generative AI.
This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full school year following the date of enactment.
Section 2 provides that the act takes effect immediately upon enactment but first applies to the first full school year following the date of enactment. This staged applicability means boards of education would have the remainder of the current school year to adopt the required policies before compliance is expected.