26 / March / 2026 · United States · Bill introduced

US proposal would put foundation-model disclosure under the FTC

H.R. 8094 asks the Federal Trade Commission to establish public-information requirements covering foundation-model training data and algorithms. The vehicle remains at the introduced stage.

What the record establishes

Finding

The introduced bill directs the FTC to establish requirements for public information about foundation-model training data and algorithms.

Underlying policy record

Evidence

Primary record

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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Coverage gap

Debate coverage often collapses training-data disclosure with model-evaluation mandates; the bill text treats them as distinct information requirements.

Method

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