In the upcoming 89th regular session of the Texas Legislature (89R), the Texas State House will be considering HB 1709, one of the first major pieces of state and national legislation that is going to make a serious attempting at establishing a regulatory framework for the use of artificial intelligence. Come join EFF-Austin and Kathy Mitchell as we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly in this bill, and how you can get involved in the effort to amend this bill to get the citizens of Texas the best possible legislation by Sine Die (session's end).

Our speaker this month is Kathy Mitchell. Kathy is a former EFF-Austin board member and a Senior Advisor at Equity Action. Previously she was the policy coordinator for Just Liberty, a Texas charitable 501(c)(4) corporation engaged in criminal justice reform at the state and local level. Just Liberty led the George Floyd Act coalition in the 2021 legislative session, lead advocacy for the Sandra Bland Act in the prior two sessions, as well as the long-term fight to finally eliminate the failed Driver Responsibility program.

Talk will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/user/austintechlive and will later be archived at https://www.youtube.com/user/effaustin. Questions for the speaker from virtual attendees may be submitted via the Youtube livestream chat, our Twitter account, @EFFaustin, our Mastodon account, @effaustin, or our Bluesky account, @effaustin.bsky.social.