House Bill 1351
By: Representatives Cannon of the 58th, Holcomb of the 101st, Beckles of the 96th, Evans of
the 57th, Ali of the 106th, and others
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
general provisions of state government, so as to require state agencies to provide a notice to
employees when using artificial intelligence in personnel matters; to require a governmental
agency to issue a disclaimer regarding the use of artificial intelligence; to provide for
definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general
provisions of state government, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows:
<ins>"50-1-15.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term:
(1) 'Artificial intelligence' means any machine based or artificial system that can, for a
given set of human defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions
influencing real or virtual environments without significant human oversight or that can
learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets. Such term
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<ins>includes automated scoring systems, predictive analytics, machine learning tools, and
vendor provided human resources platforms.
(2) 'Governmental agency' means any board, commission, department, authority, other
agency, or political subdivision of the state.
(b) If a governmental agency uses, or contracts with a third party for the use of, artificial
intelligence during the hiring process of an employee, such agency shall provide a
disclaimer in the listed job description stating that artificial intelligence may be used to
evaluate an application for employment.
(c) If a governmental agency uses, or contracts with a third party for the use of, artificial
intelligence to evaluate the performance of an employee that leads to termination of the
employee, such agency shall provide a disclaimer which documents all decision pathways
which led to the termination of the employee, including documentation of human review
of such decision pathways.
(d) In addition to the requirements for a disclaimer listed in subsections (b) and (c) of this
Code section, a disclaimer shall also provide how the use of artificial intelligence was
adopted and deployed and any data, sources, or metrics which were used."
</ins> SECTION 2.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.