SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8881 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8881

  To amend the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the
   Small Business Administration to report on the use of artificial
intelligence and machine learning by the Administration, and for other
                               purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2026

  Mr. Finstad (for himself and Mr. Latimer) introduced the following
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL

  To amend the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the
   Small Business Administration to report on the use of artificial
intelligence and machine learning by the Administration, 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 ``SBA Artificial Intelligence
Utilization Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS REGARDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING
              USE BY THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.

    Section 10(c) of the Small Business Act is amended to read as
follows:
    ``(c) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Use Reports.--
            ``(1) Reports required.--Not later than 90 days after the
        date of the enactment of this subsection, and annually
        thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on
        Small Business of the House of Representatives and the
        Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate
        a report on--
                    ``(A) the use of artificial intelligence and
                machine learning by the Administration;
                    ``(B) the benefits and risks posed by the use of
                artificial intelligence and machine learning in the
                work of the Administration, including in impeding the
                operations of the Administration; and
                    ``(C) measures that the Administrator can take to
                effectively identify, evaluate, and manage such
                benefits and risks, including explanations of how the
                Administrator can--
                            ``(i) retain human involvement in important
                        decisions informed by recommendations made by
                        artificial intelligence or machine learning;
                            ``(ii) identify tasks and functions that
                        artificial intelligence or machine learning can
                        and cannot reliably and effectively perform,
                        including whether artificial intelligence and
                        machine learning can improve operations,
                        productivity, or customer service;
                            ``(iii) determine which specific artificial
                        intelligence or machine learning tools are
                        appropriate for a particular task or function,
                        if such task or function is determined to have
                        the potential to be reliably and effectively
                        performed by artificial intelligence or machine
                        learning; and
                            ``(iv) determine whether an artificial
                        intelligence or machine learning tool
                        adequately fills a need of the Administration
                        and is worth adopting to fulfill such need.
            ``(2) Briefing required.--Not later than 30 days after the
        date on which the Administrator submits each report required
        under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall provide to the
        committees described in such paragraph a briefing on such
        report.
            ``(3) Definitions.--In this subsection, the terms
        `artificial intelligence' and `machine learning' have the
        meanings given, respectively, in section 5002 of the William M.
        (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
        Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 9401).''.
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