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Texas issues AI training requirements and adopts DIR AI rules; sandboxes coming this summer

Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Learning Technologies Advisory Committee (LTAC) · February 27, 2026
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Texas Department of Information Resources representatives told LTAC that state AI training requirements enacted by the legislature are being implemented, DIR adopted AI rules and will publish them soon, and the agency is building AI sandboxes for state agencies and higher-education institutions.

Jenny Holster of the Texas Department of Information Resources briefed LTAC on the agencys progress implementing AI policy and training.

Holster said HB3512's training requirement (added to the existing cybersecurity training statute) went into effect Sept. 1 and DIR has begun certifying training programs. "We have 13 that have been already certified," she said, and those certified programs will be listed on DIRs website. The training…

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