AI Foundation Model Transparency Act introduced in the House

H.R. 8094 entered the 119th Congress and was referred for committee consideration.

Event typeintroduction

This update belongs to H.R. 8094. Read the parent policy page for the full instrument.

What changed

Fact

The introduction created a federal vehicle for foundation-model disclosure covering training data, testing and operations.

H.R. 8094 entered the 119th Congress and was referred for committee consideration.

Operational consequence

Analysis

Placed a concrete model-transparency proposal before Congress.

The consequence statement is limited to what the linked evidence and event record support.

Supporting passages

Fact

Exact quotes below are taken from evidence rows attached to this update.

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.
H.R. 8094 · Section 2(a)(1)(A)

Limits

The bill is introduced legislation, not current law, and it does not itself create mandatory government predeployment evaluations.

An update page records a dated change. It does not replace the full vehicle text or later amendments.

Policy questions

Frontier safety

Should frontier models face mandatory evaluations?

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

Policy asks

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.

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.

Evidence

Source basis

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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)