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HR8548Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney [D-CA-37] (D-CA)
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S3952119th CongressWALLET
Future of Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a federal hub to develop voluntary AI standards and testbeds. It would coordinate testing, shared datasets, prize challenges, and international standards work to help U.S. researchers and industry build safer, more interoperable AI.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
New federal AI prize competitions
If enacted, the bill would let OSTP and other agencies run a Federal Grand Challenges prize program within one year to fund AI research and commercialization. Prizes would generally be limited to U.S. companies and to individual winners who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, and agencies must post competitions publicly and report prize winners to Congress within 60 days. The prize program would sunset five years after enactment and would be subject to available appropriations. The Comptroller General would study federal prize competitions and provide interim and final reports and briefings on effectiveness and cost‑efficiency within 180 and 540 days.
New NIST AI standards center
If enacted, the bill would require NIST to set up a Center for Artificial Intelligence Standards and Innovation within 90 days and to form a stakeholder consortium within 180 days. The Center would give voluntary guidance, testing methods, and quarterly consultation with industry, labs, academia, and civil society, and must report to Congress within one year and annually after. The bill would raise NIST's authorized professional staff from 15 to 30 and extend the related hiring authority to expire on December 30, 2035. The Center would be limited to voluntary guidance and would not give the Director new enforcement powers.
Priority federal AI datasets list
If enacted, the bill would direct OSTP, through the National Science and Technology Council, to identify and prioritize 20 federal datasets within one year for AI training and evaluation. The public would be able to comment before the list is final. Agencies would add improved datasets to their data inventories and could make them available to pilot programs, while withholding trade secrets or other protected information. The Interagency Committee could also restrict sharing these datasets with countries the government finds harmful to U.S. national security.
Shared AI testbeds and privacy rules
If enacted, the bill would require Commerce and Energy, with NSF, to create an interagency AI testbed program within one year that links national and federal labs, NIST, and public/private partners for tests, reproducible evaluations, and security assessments. The program would include a voluntary foundation models test program for models across text, image, audio, video, code, and mixed types, and confidential submissions would be limited to contributors and the test institute and protected from public FOIA release. The bill would bar entities owned, controlled, or influenced by certain foreign governments from using Center resources and allows DOE lab resources to be provided on a reimbursable basis unless the Energy Secretary waives that rule. The testbed programs and many confidentiality protections would terminate seven years after enactment and must be evaluated within three years of start.
New rules for temporary fellows
If enacted, the bill would define 'temporary fellow' as a non‑federal person doing agency work and require the fellow and the agency head to sign a certification that the fellow will not perform inherently governmental functions before starting. The agency must send that certification to OMB and relevant congressional committees within 30 days. Inspectors General must audit temporary fellow use every year and agencies must send audit findings to OMB and committees within 30 days after the audit.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
IN • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 2/26/2026
Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
TN • R
Sponsored 2/26/2026
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 2/26/2026
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