TRAIN Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7209 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7209 To create an administrative subpoena process to assist copyright owners in determining which of their copyrighted works have been used in the training of artificial intelligence models. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 22, 2026 Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania (for herself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To create an administrative subpoena process to assist copyright owners in determining which of their copyrighted works have been used in the training of artificial intelligence models. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks Act'' or the ``TRAIN Act''. SEC. 2. SUBPOENA FOR COPIES OR RECORDS RELATING TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS. (a) In General.--Chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Sec. 514. Subpoena for copies or records relating to artificial intelligence models ``(a) Definitions.--In this section: ``(1) Artificial intelligence.--The term `artificial intelligence' has the meaning given the term in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401). ``(2) Artificial intelligence model.--The term `artificial intelligence model' means a component of an information system that implements artificial intelligence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs. ``(3) Developer.--The term `developer'-- ``(A) means a person or Stat