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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