Voluntary Consumer AI Disclosure Pilot Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9439 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9439

  To amend the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to 
    direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
     Technology to establish a pilot program and develop voluntary 
  disclosure standards relating to the use of artificial intelligence 
      systems by private sector entities, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2026

 Ms. Lofgren introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL

 
  To amend the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to 
    direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
     Technology to establish a pilot program and develop voluntary 
  disclosure standards relating to the use of artificial intelligence 
      systems by private sector entities, 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 ``Voluntary Consumer AI Disclosure 
Pilot Act''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM.

    Section 22A of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Act (15 U.S.C. 278h-1) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (h) as 
        subsections (d) through (i), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) Pilot Program; Consumer Disclosure for Real-Time 
Interaction.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        the enactment of this subsection, the Director shall carry out 
        the following:
                    ``(A) Establish a pilot program--
                            ``(i) to evaluate voluntary approaches for 
                        provenance and disclosures of content produced 
                        or manipulated by artificial intelligence, 
                        including how a private sector entity may 
                        disclose to a user of a product or service of 
                        such entity--
                                    ``(I) any content generated by an 
                                artificial intelligence system with 
                                which such user may engage; and
                                    ``(II) instances of any direct, 
                                real-time interaction by such user with 
                                such system; and
                            ``(ii) that is informed by consumer product 
                        labeling programs in existence as of such date 
                        of establishment.
                    ``(B) Based on such pilot program, support the 
                development of guidelines, best practices, and 
                voluntary standards for the disclosure of content 
                produced or manipulated by artificial intelligence 
                described in subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) Not later than 180 days after completing the 
                pilot program under subparagraph (A), submit to the 
                Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and the 
                Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
                and Transportation of the Senate a report on the 
                outcomes of the pilot program, including--
                            ``(i) findings regarding the feasibility, 
                        usefulness, and limitations of the disclosure 
                        and content provenance approaches evaluated 
                        through the pilot program; and
                            ``(ii) recommendations, if any, for further 
                        congressional or administrative action.
            ``(2) Consultation.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
        Director shall carry out the following:
                    ``(A) Consult with the heads of appropriate Federal 
                departments and agencies.
                    ``(B) Seek to consult with the following:
                            ``(i) Appropriate private sector entities 
                        of different sizes.
                            ``(ii) Civil society.
                            ``(iii) Academia.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) 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 system.--The term `artificial 
        intelligence system' means a data system, software, hardware, 
        application, tool, service, or utility that operates in whole 
        or in part using artificial intelligence.
            ``(3) Content provenance.--The term `content provenance' 
        means the chronology of the origin and history associated with 
        digital content.''.
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