Bills

AB 2544: Pupil instruction: media literacy: artificial intelligence literacy: curriculum frameworks: instructional materials.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2026-02-20

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-02-21: From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education and develop criteria for evaluating instructional materials, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to consider incorporating media literacy content, as defined, into the mathematics, science, and history-social science curriculum frameworks when those frameworks are next revised after January 1, 2024, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy content, as defined, when they are next revised after January 1, 2025. When mathematics, science, and history-social science instructional materials are next adopted by the state board after January 1, 2025, existing law requires the commission to consider including media literacy content and AI literacy content in its criteria for evaluating instructional materials.

This bill would makes nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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