AI-Ready Federal Data Guidelines Act
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jun 25, 2026
What it does
The bill would require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop voluntary guidelines to help federal agencies prepare open government data assets for use in training artificial intelligence models, covering areas such as data formatting, labeling, quality, metadata, maintenance, and availability. These guidelines would be developed in consultation with key federal officials and agencies, and NIST may conduct pilot programs in high-priority sectors like biotechnology and biomanufacturing to refine sector-specific applications. The bill prohibits NIST from reallocating funds from other programs to support this effort and mandates regular…
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Where it stands
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