# 119-hr-10180: Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act

119-hr-10180, Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Whitesides, George [D-CA-27] (D-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-10180
- Congress: 119
- Title: Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-08-27
- Sponsor: Rep. Whitesides, George [D-CA-27] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-17

## Summary

**Expands NIST oversight of frontier AI capabilities.** This bill would direct the NIST Director to assess trends in AI capabilities, including systems that can autonomously perform research or development, and to require specific disclosures and evaluations in memorandums of understanding for pre-deployment testing of frontier AI systems. - Developers of frontier AI systems would have to disclose detailed pre-deployment evaluation information in memorandums of understanding. Required items include specific metrics, estimates of unsupervised usage, methodologies, and an explicit evaluation of any autonomous ability to facilitate or conduct research and development. - The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology would gain a new duty to assess AI capability trends, including autonomous R&D features, using information from those disclosures and other sources. - Regulators, safety researchers, and auditors would get clearer, standardized materials to review how frontier systems are evaluated before deployment, increasing transparency and accountability.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA), 2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Harrigan, Pat [R-NC-10] (R-NC), 2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New rules for frontier AI developers: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would add a duty for the NIST Director to track trends in AI capabilities, including abilities that might autonomously do research or development. The bill would stop NIST from signing a memorandum of understanding to run a pre-deployment test for a developer's designated "fron…

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- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-10180 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10180)

## Related
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-10061: Wildfire Response and Readiness Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10061)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10180 (as of 2026-10-17).