The bill standardizes and improves AI training and data-awareness across relevant federal workforces, improving preparedness and program delivery, while imposing greater time and cost burdens and concentrating implementation authority in GSA, which may reduce agency flexibility and complicate coordination.
Federal employees in acquisition, management, supervisory, and data/technology roles will receive standardized AI training that clarifies capabilities, risks, and best practices.
Training will include the role of data in AI, improving workforce understanding of data governance and operational risks for AI projects.
Agencies can integrate AI training into existing employee training programs (including under 5 U.S.C. 4103), reducing duplication and easing delivery.
Expanding the categories of covered personnel increases training costs and time commitments for more employees, potentially diverting staff time from agency duties and raising taxpayer expense.
Shifting lead authority from OMB to GSA centralizes implementation at GSA, which could slow interagency coordination or produce inconsistencies with existing OMB policy priorities.
Mandating coverage of OMB/GSA-developed requirements and best practices may reduce agency flexibility and risk producing prescriptive guidance that lags rapidly changing AI technology.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes GSA (with OMB coordination) lead for federal AI training, expands who must be trained, and updates required AI training content and definitions.
Introduced June 5, 2025 by Nancy Mace · Last progress June 5, 2025
Amends the federal law on AI training for acquisition staff to make the General Services Administration (GSA) — working with OMB — responsible for running and integrating an AI training program across federal agencies. It broadens who must get training to include not only acquisition personnel but also managers, supervisors, and data or technology employees, and updates required training topics to cover AI capabilities, risks, and relevant OMB/GSA guidance and best practices. Also changes the statute’s short title and adds or revises definitions (for example, acquisition position, data or technology position, administrator, management official, and supervisor). The bill lets GSA fold the AI training into other federal training programs and asks that participant feedback be used when practicable.