Tennessee Senate Bill 1711

• Authority: Tennessee
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-03-11

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Governance failure

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document has minimal risk domain coverage, primarily addressing governance failure (6.5) through requirements for policy adoption and reporting. It does not substantively address specific AI risks or harms, focusing instead on establishing procedural requirements for educational institutions to create AI use policies.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Educational Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation exclusively governs the Educational Services sector, specifically public institutions of higher education (universities) and K-12 public schools including charter schools in Tennessee. No other economic sectors are regulated by this document.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly with mandatory requirements, specified deadlines, and accountability measures for noncompliance including required appearances before legislative committees.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Tennessee General Assembly
• Summary: The document is a state bill enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly, as indicated by the enactment clause and legislative structure.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_User, AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: University of Tennessee board of trustees; Tennessee board of regents; local governing boards of trustees of state universities; public charter school governing bodies; students; faculty; staff; teachers
• Summary: The bill targets educational institutions and their governing bodies, requiring them to adopt AI use policies. It also applies to students, faculty, staff, and teachers who use AI for instructional and assignment purposes.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: joint government operations committee; Tennessee Department of Education; chair of the education committee of the senate; chair of the education administration committee of the house of representatives
• Summary: The joint government operations committee has enforcement authority to require noncompliant institutions to appear and report. The Department of Education receives compliance reports, and legislative committee chairs receive policy submissions.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Tennessee Department of Education; joint government operations committee; chair of the education committee of the senate; chair of the education administration committee of the house of representatives
• Summary: The Department of Education receives annual compliance reports from educational institutions. Legislative committees receive policy submissions and the joint government operations committee monitors noncompliance.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not specify particular AI lifecycle stages, as it focuses on establishing governance requirements for educational institutions to create AI use policies. The policies themselves may address various lifecycle stages, but the bill only mandates policy adoption, implementation, and reporting.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and mentions artificial intelligence systems but does not reference specific AI model types, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on AI as a general technology category.