3.0.0 2997 2026-07-08T16:02:12Z 2026-07-08T16:02:12Z Senate S S 2025-10-09 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2997 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-10-09T19:58:35Z 2025-10-09 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-10-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. N B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2025-10-09 True S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2025-10-15 False Health Health 2025-12-09T17:29:09Z 00 2025-10-09 Introduced in Senate 2026-07-08T16:00:29Z Right to Override Act

This bill requires employers of health care professionals to allow such professionals to override artificial intelligence clinical decision support systems. It also prohibits employers from retaliating against those who override these systems. 

The bill defines artificial intelligence clinical decision support systems as technology that supports decision-making through the use of algorithms or models that are based on clinical practice guidelines or training data and that produces predictions, recommendations, evaluations, or analysis.

Health care facilities, health plans, and other entities (including government entities) that employ health care professionals and use these systems must adopt policies that allow health care professionals to use their independent judgment to override outputs from these systems. Such entities must also provide training and establish a committee to advise the entity on these systems. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must enforce these requirements, including by imposing civil penalties for violations.

Also, the bill prohibits these employers from taking adverse employment actions, discriminating, or retaliating against those who override these systems in accordance with employer policies. The Department of Labor must enforce these protections, which may include civil penalties specified in the bill. Individuals alleging violations of these protections may (1) submit an administrative complaint to Labor, or (2) commence a civil action. State programs receiving federal funds do not have immunity regarding such civil actions brought by employees. 

States may also bring civil actions against employers for violating the bill’s requirements upon notice to HHS or Labor, as appropriate.

]]> Right to Override Act Display Title 45 Right to Override Act 2025-10-18T03:23:14Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Right to Override Act 2025-10-18T03:23:13Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to protect the independent judgment of health care professionals acting in the scope of their practice in overriding AI/CDSS outputs, and for other purposes. 2025-10-18T03:18:16Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2997is/xml/BILLS-119s2997is.xml 2025-10-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.