Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Affordable Innovation for the Grid Act
The bill seeks to modernize grid planning and speed interconnections through AI/HPC assessments and a federal report—potentially improving reliability and clarity for regulators—while creating cybersecurity risks and possible implementation costs without guaranteed funding.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military readiness, technological defenses, service member benefits, and industrial resilience but does so at the cost of materially higher federal spending, expanded administrative and reporting burdens, procurement and privacy tradeoffs, and several provisions that raise legal and implementation risks.
Small Business Technological Advancement Act
The bill lets small businesses use SBA 7(a) loans to finance software and AI tools—boosting access to digital capabilities and efficiency—while increasing federal lending exposure, the risk of loans being used for recurring non-capital expenses, and potential workforce disruption from automation.
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 ramps up U.S. defense, maritime, and diplomatic capabilities and invests in domestic industrial resilience and service member support, but does so through large new spending, pervasive reporting mandates, procurement shifts, and authorities that raise taxpayer costs, administrative burdens, privacy risks, and some national‑security tradeoffs.
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 military readiness, domestic industrial capacity, technology adoption, and service‑member supports, but does so at the cost of substantial new spending, heavier administrative and compliance burdens, limits on certain rights and research collaborations, and risks of market distortions or implementation/operational tradeoffs.
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.
China AI Power Report Act
The bill increases U.S. visibility into PRC AI hardware, supply chains, and deployments—strengthening oversight and informing export controls and privacy protections—but does so at the cost of potential proprietary disclosures, increased taxpayer and compliance burdens, national-security exposure if handling fails, and pressure on research collaborations.
FAIRR Act
The bill strengthens federal oversight and required AI governance to reduce AI-driven risks in finance and housing—improving market safety and regulatory clarity—at the cost of added compliance costs, faster rule timelines, potential inter-agency overlap, and burdens that fall especially hard on smaller firms and third‑party vendors.
Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Talent Act
The bill aims to attract and vet high‑skilled tech talent and strengthen technology security while trading off faster access and broader fairness for higher compliance costs, potential delays, and civil‑liberties concerns.
BLADE Act
The bill strengthens tools for U.S. model owners and the federal government to detect, deter, and block large‑scale model extraction—improving IP protection and national security—but does so by expanding executive authority, imposing compliance costs, and reducing transparency and some international collaboration.
For Our Republic Act
The bill strengthens oversight, ethics, civil‑liberties protections (especially for children, immigrants, and election integrity) and increases transparency, but does so by adding significant compliance, staffing, and litigation costs and by constraining executive flexibility and some law‑enforcement tools.
K–12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of 2026
The bill enables broad use of federal education funds to expand AI instruction and build educator capacity—potentially improving students' future job readiness—while risking diversion of scarce funds, increased inequities, privacy harms, and added burdens on school staff.
Children's Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act of 2026
The bill increases protections and oversight for children’s AI-enabled toys and gives regulators evidence and clarity to act, but it also raises compliance costs, could reduce product features or availability, and delays some immediate protections while studies and plans are completed.
CHAT Act 2.0
The bill substantially increases protections, transparency, and oversight for minors interacting with companion chatbots—trading off broader safety and parental control for higher compliance costs, some loss of confidential access for youth, privacy‑implementation risks, and regulatory uncertainty that may shrink innovation and strain smaller providers.
AI Ads Act
The bill increases protections against AI-driven impersonation and deceptive political solicitations and makes it easier to hold fraudsters accountable, but does so in ways that risk chilling legitimate political expression and imposing compliance and enforcement burdens—especially on small actors and civic organizations.
Human Dignity and Emerging Technologies Act
The bill creates a bipartisan, expert advisory Commission to inform ethical, safety, and national‑security policy on emerging technologies — improving oversight and rights‑focused analysis but adding modest taxpayer costs, potential bureaucratic burdens and politicization risks, and uncertain real‑world impact because the body is advisory and time‑limited.
Senior Chatbot Protection Act of 2026
The bill strengthens transparency, consent, crisis safety, and enforcement for chatbot interactions—especially protecting older adults and people in crisis—but does so by imposing significant compliance, reporting, and enforcement costs and regulatory uncertainty that may slow AI innovation and degrade some user experiences.
Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act
The bill creates a legal framework to enable confidential coordination and stronger enforcement against unsafe or anticompetitive AI conduct—improving national security and accountability—but at the cost of increased compliance and litigation burdens, reduced transparency, and potential chill on research, innovation, and competition, especially for researchers and small firms.
Secure A.I. Development Act of 2026
The bill aims to strengthen AI security, incident-sharing, and vulnerability management to protect critical systems and inform policymakers, but it does so by imposing substantial compliance costs, creating secrecy and IP‑exposure risks, and favoring better‑resourced firms — trading broader safety gains for burdens on small developers, potential transparency losses, and short‑term agency strain.
Safeguarding Against Fabricated Exploitation Through Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026
The bill strengthens protections, standards, and legal remedies against abusive synthetic content—better protecting children and victims and pushing vendors toward safer AI—but does so at the cost of added compliance and liability burdens, potential market consolidation, trade/enforcement complexity, and risks of chilling legitimate research and expression.
