A bill to direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish definitions, standards, resources, and frameworks to ensure certain biological datasets are ready for use in artificial intelligence models, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4069 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4069 To direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish definitions, standards, resources, and frameworks to ensure certain biological datasets are ready for use in artificial intelligence models, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 12, 2026 Mr. Young (for himself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish definitions, standards, resources, and frameworks to ensure certain biological datasets are ready for use in artificial intelligence models, and for other purposes. 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 ``AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS, STANDARDS, RESOURCES, AND FRAMEWORKS BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CERTAIN BIOLOGICAL DATASETS. (a) Establishment.-- (1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (in this section referred to as the ``Director''), pursuant to recommendations from the advisory group under subsection (f) and taking into account any feedback received under subsection (e), shall establish definitions, standards, resources, and frameworks to ensure each biological dataset generated as a result of qualified federally funded research is artificial intelligence-ready. (2) Requirements for definitions, standards, resources, and fra