legislature

United States Congress

The federal legislature in which current proposals address foundation-model transparency, evaluation standards and AI data-centre development.

Policy questions

Recorded interests

Frontier safety

Should frontier models face mandatory evaluations?

Evaluation language is widespread in policy texts. Thresholds, evaluators and legal consequences remain contested.

Compute & energy

Should AI data centres face growth controls?

Electricity, water, local consent and national competitiveness are turning compute infrastructure into a policy fight.

Policy asks

Connected outcomes

introduced

Require public disclosure rules for foundation-model training data, testing and operations

Direct a federal regulator to establish public-information requirements covering training data, documentation, testing, inference-time collection and model operations for covered foundation models.

introduced

Pause new large AI data centres pending resource and security review

Pause construction or upgrading of covered AI data centres until Congress enacts specified safeguards and expressly terminates the moratorium.

Policy vehicles

bill · Introduced

H.R. 8094 · AI Foundation Model Transparency Act of 2026

A House bill directing the FTC to establish public disclosure requirements for covered foundation models.

bill · Introduced

H.R. 9442 · Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act

A House bill proposing a conditional moratorium on construction or upgrading of covered AI data centres.

Event history

Recorded actions

2026-03-26
AI Foundation Model Transparency Act introduced in the House
H.R. 8094 entered the 119th Congress and was referred for committee consideration.
2026-06-24
AI Data Center Moratorium Act introduced in the House
H.R. 9442 was introduced and referred to House committees.

Evidence

Passages linked to this actor

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H.R. 8094 directs the FTC to establish foundation-model disclosure rules

The bill would require regulations covering training data, documentation, testing, inference-time collection and model operations.

Establish requirements for covered entities with regard to foundation models to improve transparency of training data, documentation, testing, data collection during inference, and operations of foundation models, before commercial deployment and during the lifecycle of the system.

Congress.gov · H.R. 8094 · Section 2(a)(1)(A)

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H.R. 9442 proposes a conditional moratorium on AI data centres

The bill would stop construction or upgrading of covered facilities until specified safeguards are enacted and Congress expressly ends the pause.

The construction or upgrading of new or existing artificial intelligence data centers may not commence or proceed until—

Congress.gov · H.R. 9442 · Section 3(b)

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H.R. 9442 would require quarterly public infrastructure reporting

The bill directs the Energy Secretary to publish facility-level information on water, energy, emissions, labour and other impacts.

The Secretary of Energy shall— (A) submit to Congress quarterly reports on artificial intelligence data centers; and (B) make those quarterly reports publicly available.

Congress.gov · H.R. 9442 · Section 3(c)(1)