Accelerating Innovation (AI) for Kids with Cancer Act
Sponsored By: Representative McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced
Summary
AI-driven pediatric cancer research would be accelerated by creating a White House Coordinator to push AI into the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative and by authorizing funds to build interoperable, AI-ready data systems.
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- Families and patients: Would aim to expand clinical trial access and improve outcomes by using AI to match participants and predict responses. It would also give patients and authorized representatives control over their health information and require interoperability standards for safe, privacy-compliant data exchange.
- Researchers and clinicians: Would make data platforms and tools part of the CCDI Data Ecosystem, consolidate multi-source and multi-omics data for AI-ready analysis, and support AI methods to generate new diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic biomarkers.
- Government and program delivery: Would place a Coordinator of AI Innovation in the Domestic Policy Council to identify AI opportunities across the CCDI and would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress within 180 days. The bill would authorize $100 million per year for fiscal years 2027–2031 for subsection (b).
*Would authorize $100 million per year for FY2027–2031 for subsection (b) and would increase federal spending if appropriated.*
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More AI support for kids' cancer
If enacted, the bill would fund and coordinate new AI work to fight childhood cancer. It would authorize $100,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 and also authorize such sums as may be necessary to carry out the section. The President would appoint a Coordinator of AI Innovation, who would sit on the Domestic Policy Council and lead AI efforts at the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. The bill would also require HHS to add AI into health data interoperability work, finalize standards for structured and unstructured patient data, protect patient control of health records, and the Secretary must report to Congress within 180 days.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
TX • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-6]
CA • D
Sponsored 7/9/2026
Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16]
PA • R
Sponsored 7/9/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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