Direct source

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.

Evidence explainer

What this establishes

The proposal uses FTC rulemaking and disclosure rather than a predeployment approval system.

Why it matters: It is a concrete federal vehicle for model transparency and evaluation disclosure.

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

Exact passage

H.R. 8094 · Section 2(a)(1)(A)

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.

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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.

Policy events

2026-03-26 · introduction

AI Foundation Model Transparency Act introduced in the House

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