Know before you vote

What's being decided about your kid and AI — right now, in your state.

Since 2025, lawmakers in 49 states have introduced 464 bills on AI chatbot safeguards, and 27 states are debating AI in classrooms. Some of it directly affects your children — their classrooms, their apps, their data. And in one state, the next decision belongs to voters, not legislators. Pick your state to see what's moving where you live.

Pick your state:
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You see the bill
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You act — message or vote
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Officials hear from parents
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The outcome changes
Step 1 · See what's being decided

California

Every status below is real as of July 2026 and links to a primary source.

Step 2 · Act — anywhere

No bill near you? Ask your school instead.

The fastest lever any parent has is their own district. Five questions, no expertise needed.

1
Which AI tools are used in my child's classroom?

Ask for product names, not categories.

2
What student data do they collect, and who keeps it?

Including whether student work trains AI models.

3
Can I see the district's AI policy in writing?

Asking creates the pressure to write one.

4
Is there an opt-out, and how do I use it?

South Carolina's HB 5253 would make opt-in consent the law.

5
Who do I contact when something goes wrong?

There should be a named person, not a shrug.

Step 3 · The bigger picture

Why this is an AI safety project

We're honest about a distinction the field itself debates: chatbot and classroom laws address near-term harms; laws like California's SB 53 and New York's RAISE Act address frontier-model and catastrophic risk. These are different problems — and we show parents both, side by side, without pretending they're the same.

Our strategic claim: AI safety advocacy today is overwhelmingly technical and elite. Parents are the largest motivated, underactivated constituency available to it. Concern that begins with a child's chatbot is how ordinary voters come to care about frontier AI governance at all. This site is the on-ramp.

What we don't cover yet honest limits

  • Federal bills (the CHATBOT Act, GUARD Act, KIDS Act) — covered well elsewhere.
  • City & district rules — school-board policies aren't in our data; the printable below is the stopgap.
  • Enforcement outcomes — we show what passed, not yet how it's working.

Stated assumptions

  • We assume constituent contact and ballot participation influence legislative outcomes — the CA ballot initiative exists because AB 1064's veto met organized parent pressure.
  • Outcome receipts (live counts of parent actions per item) launch with v1 and are not shown as real data anywhere on this preview.
Step 4 · How we keep it honest

Methodology

Sourcing

Bill data comes from the LegiScan API, filtered by keywords ("artificial intelligence" + "student"/"minor"/"child"), cross-checked against FutureEd, the Future of Privacy Forum, and NCSL trackers.

Plain-English review

Every summary is rewritten by a human from legal text into one readable sentence, then linked back to the original bill so anyone can verify it.

Update cadence

Weekly refresh. Status changes are reflected within days. Wrong or stale? Email corrections@theaiparentproject.org.

Who's behind this

An independent, volunteer-run project — not affiliated with any legislator, party, or company. Parent stories shown in mockups are illustrative until real interviews replace them at launch.