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Bill · 119th Congress · S 4069

AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act

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Introduced 2026-03-12Topic: technology privacy · higher education · governance ethics

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This bill directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create, within 2 years, definitions, standards, data management resources, and cybersecurity frameworks so that biological datasets produced by certain federally funded research are ready for use in training artificial intelligence models. NIST would also set or revise data management policies for each federal agency that funds such research, requiring that covered datasets meet these standards. The bill creates an advisory group of at least 12 members, requires public input, testing of the standards with the National Science Foundation, a public database of AI-ready biological datasets, and regular reports to Congress. The section would end 10 years after enactment.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2026-03-12SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.refer
2026-03-12Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.