Grants, standards & toolkits.

First-edition guide released Aug 28, 2024, based on the state AI Task Force's recommendations, to help school systems write AI policies. Five guiding principles: data privacy and security, ethics and bias avoidance, student-centered learning, transparency and explainability, and educator professional development.

Signed September 16, 2025. Froze state-agency AI procurement until Dec 15, 2025, required the CIO and agency heads to issue AI acquisition and information-management policies and inventory AI contracts and use cases, limited sensitive data in AI systems in the interim, and required datasets to be cleansed before AI use. JML 25-109 later amended it.

Announced Feb 6, 2025: the LA.IO startup division, a Louisiana Growth Fund seeded with $50M in federal funds (about $100M with partner matches), and the Louisiana Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit for applied R&D, workforce and policy whose first project targets AI tools for 5,000 small businesses.