AI-Ready Federal Data Guidelines Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9341 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9341 To require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop guidelines to assist agencies with preparing open Government data assets to be used to train artificial intelligence models, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 18, 2026 Mr. Babin (for himself and Ms. Lofgren) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop guidelines to assist agencies with preparing open Government data assets to be used to train 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 Federal Data Guidelines Act''. SEC. 2. AI-READY DATA GUIDELINES FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES. (a) In General.--The National Institute of Standards and Technology Act is amended by inserting after section 21 (15 U.S.C. 278g-4) the following new section: ``SEC. 21A. AI-READY DATA GUIDELINES FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES. ``(a) Development of Guidelines.-- ``(1) In general.--The Director, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the head of any other Federal agency the Director considers appropriate, shall develop voluntary guidelines to assist agencies with preparing datasets, including open Government data assets, to be used to train artificial intelligence models. ``(2) Elements.--In developing the guidelines under paragraph (1) the