# 119-s-3813: CLEAR Act

119-s-3813, CLEAR Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-11).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-3813
- Congress: 119
- Title: CLEAR Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-02-10
- Sponsor: Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Commerce
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-11

## Summary

**This bill would require anyone who uses copyrighted material to train or release a generative AI model to file a detailed notice with the Register of Copyrights.** It would also create a public, searchable database of those notices and give copyright owners legal remedies when notices are missing. - Developers and companies would have to provide a detailed summary of each copyrighted work in a training dataset and include the dataset URL if it was publicly available. They would generally need to submit the notice at least 30 days before commercial use or release of the model, or within 30 days after regulations are issued for models first used earlier. - Copyright holders would gain a private right of action in federal court if a required notice is not submitted. Courts could impose civil penalties starting at $5,000 per failure, award attorney's fees, and issue injunctions to stop use until notice is filed. Total civil penalties are capped at $2.5 million per year. - The Register of Copyrights would have 180 days after the law takes effect to write rules on the form, content, and filing procedures. The Register must maintain a publicly accessible online database of submitted notices, and penalties collected would be paid to the Register to help offset Copyright Office operating costs.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Curtis, John R. [R-UT] (R-UT), 2026-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New reporting rules for AI developers: cost, medium. This bill would require anyone who uses training data to train or release a generative AI model to file a notice with the Register of Copyrights. The notice would have to summarize each copyrighted work in the training dataset and include the dataset URL if it is publicly available. For models firs…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026
- 119-s-1541: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-s-3597: National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026
- 119-s-2838: Protecting Our Democracy Act
- 119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act

## Sources
- [119-s-3813 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3813)

## Related
- [119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4949)
- [119-s-1541: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1541)
- [119-s-3597: National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3597)
- [119-s-2838: Protecting Our Democracy Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2838)
- [119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2819)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3813 (as of 2026-08-11).