Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
FIT Procurement Act
The bill seeks to speed and modernize federal ICT procurement and expand small‑business access through training, higher thresholds, and streamlined rules, but those efficiencies come with increased risks to competition, oversight, contractor performance, and implementation—made more acute by a prohibition on new funding to carry out the reforms.
To amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to support nucleic acid screening, and for other purposes.
The bill strengthens biosecurity by funding standards and convening stakeholders to reduce risks from synthesized sequences, but it imposes compliance burdens, raises privacy concerns, and may be underfunded relative to the scope and evolving nature of the risks.
Small Business Technological Advancement Act
The bill helps small businesses access and adopt modern and AI-enabled software via SBA 7(a) loans to boost competitiveness, but increases lending risks, potential taxpayer exposure, and may accelerate workforce disruption and reskilling needs.
SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency and congressional oversight of SBA AI/ML use and protects human involvement in decisions, but does so at the cost of added administrative burden for the SBA and some risk that disclosures could reveal sensitive procurement or system details.
Stop Stealing our Chips Act
The bill strengthens export‑control enforcement and national security by financially incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers and speeding investigations, but it raises costs and administrative burdens for government and regulated businesses and carries risks to confidentiality and program funding stability.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI more safely by providing SBA-delivered, regularly updated voluntary guidance and cybersecurity best practices, but it relies on taxpayer-funded implementation and nonbinding recommendations that may leave some firms—especially resource-constrained or specialized ones—without adequate support.
AI–WISE Act
The bill gives small businesses timely, free AI training and risk guidance but does so with limited transparency and no guaranteed new funding, risking underfunded implementation and potential bias in materials.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill prioritizes a broad strengthening of U.S. defense, industrial capacity, allied partnerships, and domestic housing/disaster programs—delivering tangible benefits to service members, veterans, and vulnerable communities—while imposing substantial new spending, administrative burdens, supply‑chain/research restrictions, and civil‑liberties and environmental tradeoffs for Americans.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill makes large, targeted investments to strengthen U.S. military readiness, the defense industrial base, and service‑member benefits while imposing significant new budgetary commitments, compliance burdens, and policy tradeoffs that restrict some medical/research freedoms and complicate contractor/industry dynamics.
DOE and NSF Interagency Research Act
The bill strengthens U.S. research capacity, workforce development, and technology deployment through coordinated federal R&D and funding, but does so at the cost of higher federal spending and increased security, equity, and administrative risks unless those are carefully managed.
PATHS Act
Affirming the critical importance of preserving the United States' advantage in artificial intelligence and ensuring that the United States achieves and maintains artificial intelligence dominance.
The bill prioritizes U.S. AI leadership and security—boosting defense capabilities, R&D, and protection of technology—at the cost of raising business and local infrastructure burdens and increasing geopolitical tensions.
CATCH Fentanyl Act
The bill aims to speed and strengthen land-port inspections through testing modern imaging and AI—potentially improving throughput and security—while trading off significant privacy risks and likely cost or budget pressures that could shift or reduce other federal services.
Modernizing Retrospective Regulatory Review Act
The bill modernizes regulatory review—making rules machine-readable and mandating tech/AI-driven retrospective review to reduce burdens and increase transparency—but does so at cost and risk: tight deadlines, potential AI bias, privacy/security concerns, and implementation expenses that could strain agencies and taxpayers.
United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
The bill significantly deepens U.S.–Israel defense collaboration and funds accelerated R&D and deployment of defensive and advanced technologies—boosting military readiness and industrial activity—while increasing federal spending, raising risks of technology exposure and political entanglement, and delaying some near‑term congressional re‑evaluation.
Strategy for Public Health Preparedness and Response to Artificial Intelligence Threats
The bill strengthens national preparedness and accountability for AI-enabled biological threats—improving detection, mitigation, and coordination—but will require funding, may limit operational transparency for local responders, and raises concerns about expanded federal authority.
AI Labeling Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency and enforcement around AI-generated content—helping users identify and verify AI material and deterring abuse—but does so by imposing significant compliance, litigation, and enforcement costs that may slow innovation, raise legal uncertainty, and create privacy trade‑offs.
SAFE KIDS Act
The bill meaningfully raises protections, transparency, and oversight for children using AI chatbots — giving families and regulators stronger safety tools — but does so by imposing substantial compliance, enforcement, and legal costs and operational constraints that could reduce availability, functionality, and innovation while introducing new risks (misclassification, safety for abused children, and regulatory uncertainty).
No Robot Bosses Act
The bill substantially strengthens worker protections, transparency, and enforcement for automated employment-related decisions at the cost of significant compliance, administrative, and litigation burdens—particularly for small businesses and startups—and creates implementation and coordination risks for federal and state authorities.
American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act
The bill trades a new public stake in AI and potential direct payments, competition safeguards, and governance transparency against higher taxes and compliance costs, legal and administrative complexity, potential dampening of private AI investment, and concentrated political control risks.
Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act of 2026
The bill strengthens protections against AI-driven election disinformation and raises data‑integrity and oversight standards to reduce wrongful voter removals, but it imposes new verification costs, privacy risks from sensitive data use, potential legal uncertainty for speech and publishers, and may hinder some federal fraud‑detection tools.
JAWBONE Act
The bill strengthens protections for platforms' editorial independence and creates legal and technical guardrails (including a reporting portal and logging standards), but does so at the risk of more litigation, legal uncertainty, privacy and surveillance concerns, and potential impediments to legitimate government-platform cooperation.
AI Bubble Transparency Act
The bill increases regulators' visibility and policymaking ability to spot and mitigate systemic AI‑related financial risks, at the cost of new compliance burdens, confidentiality risks from unredacted reporting, and potential enforcement-driven legal friction.
AI DATA Act
The bill builds a richer, multi-frequency evidence base to help workers, employers, and governments respond to AI-driven changes in the labor market, but it does so with significant taxpayer costs, added reporting burdens, and meaningful privacy and governance risks that will require strong safeguards and funding discipline.
Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency, planning, and standardization to identify and reduce AI data centers' environmental impacts—helping communities, utilities, and policymakers—while imposing new costs, potential data‑sensitivity risks, and the risk that growth in AI infrastructure could worsen local pollution and environmental justice harms unless stronger, binding protections follow.
HALO Act of 2026
The bill raises DoD AI safety, testing, oversight, and civil‑liberties protections—improving reliability, human control, and transparency—but does so at the cost of higher program and administrative expenses, slower fielding and operational flexibility, and remaining risks from targeted exemptions and disclosure of sensitive vulnerabilities.
WARP Act of 2026
The bill improves understanding, oversight, and mitigation of AI impacts on warfighter skills—strengthening readiness and accountability—but will cost money, may disrupt training in the short term, and could slow deployment of some AI systems.
SIMS Act
The bill strengthens protections for children and gives authorities enforcement and investigatory tools to remove sexualized minor‑simulating chatbots, but it imposes compliance costs and legal uncertainty that could chill research, burden small developers, and raise privacy/free‑expression concerns.
FARM AI Act of 2026
The bill seeks to modernize U.S. agriculture by promoting AI tools, research, standards, and workforce training to boost productivity and resilience, but it risks increasing federal costs, widening gaps for small or poorly connected producers, and creating data‑privacy and cybersecurity challenges unless funding, equitable access, and enforceable safeguards are addressed.
AI OVERWATCH Act
The bill tightens export controls to reduce national security risks from foreign access to advanced chips while providing limited domestic exemptions and oversight — at the cost of higher compliance burdens, supply‑chain disruption, potential loss of export markets, and regulatory uncertainty.
