[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10180 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10180

  To amend the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to 
  authorize certain assessments by the Director of the Institute and 
impose requirements on certain memorandums of understanding relating to 
            artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 27, 2026

Mr. Whitesides (for himself and Mr. Harrigan) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to 
  authorize certain assessments by the Director of the Institute and 
impose requirements on certain memorandums of understanding relating to 
            artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act''.

SEC. 2. ASSESSMENTS AND MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING WITH RESPECT TO 
              CERTAIN STANDARDS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Section 22A of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Act (15 U.S.C. 278h-1) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' after the 
                semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (5), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(6) assess, based on the information, if any, disclosed 
        pursuant to subsection (h)(1) and other information, trends 
        regarding the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems, 
        including such a capability to autonomously facilitate or 
        conduct research on or development of an artificial 
        intelligence system, that might contribute to scientific 
        research and development breakthroughs.'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (g) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(h) Requirements for Memorandums of Understanding.--In carrying 
out subsection (b), the Director may not enter into with the developer 
of a frontier artificial intelligence system (as determined by the 
Director) a memorandum of understanding to conduct pre-deployment 
evaluation of such frontier artificial intelligence system unless the 
following requirements are satisfied:
            ``(1) Such memorandum includes a requirement for such 
        developer, in carrying out such evaluation, to disclose to the 
        Director upon request of the Director information relating to 
        the extent to which an artificial intelligence system was 
        utilized to facilitate or conduct research on or development of 
        such frontier artificial intelligence system, such as any of 
        the following information:
                    ``(A) A metric maintained by such developer in the 
                ordinary course of business relating to such 
                utilization.
                    ``(B) An estimate of the extent to which an 
                artificial intelligence system was so utilized without 
                human review.
                    ``(C) A description of the methodology utilized to 
                develop such estimate.
            ``(2) Such evaluation includes an evaluation of the 
        capabilities, if any, of such frontier artificial intelligence 
        system to autonomously facilitate or conduct research on or 
        development of an artificial intelligence system.''.
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