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Bill · 119th Congress · S 4098

Artificial Intelligence-Ready Data Act

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Introduced 2026-03-16Topic: technology privacy · governance ethics · environment

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This bill would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop standards and guidelines to help federal agencies make open government data usable for building and training artificial intelligence. The standards would call for data to be downloadable, accurate, human-readable, in open machine-readable formats, and protective of privacy, and NIST would take public comment for at least 60 days and publish the standards within one year. NIST would review the standards at least every two years. The President, through the White House science office, would then require each federal agency to adopt the standards. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would also have to make its weather and environmental data support AI use in forecasting and brief Congress each year for five years.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2026-03-16SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.refer
2026-03-16Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.