To provide for Federal civilian agency laboratory development for testing and certification of artificial intelligence for civilian agency use, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9043.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACKSON LEE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 116, July 15, 2024, Page H4633):
  Article I Section 8 . . . Provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States; . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: The bill, should it become law, would establish the process for building competency and capacity to test and train Artificial Intelligence for use by civil federal agencies.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 15, 2024 ↗

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  553 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9043, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9043

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c5b8254b481b82e9d60fb95a928754e6d0865f1fba67e0829d6030ec0e31d8ca

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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