House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
AI Grand Challenges Act of 2026
Official title: To authorize the Director of the National Science Foundation to identify grand challenges and award competitive prizes for artificial intelligence research and development.
Sponsor: Rep. Ted Lieu D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 9, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 9, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7434.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LIEU, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 27, February 9, 2026, Page H2096):U.S. Const., Art. 1, Sec. 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 27 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7434, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7434
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 21, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 May 21, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
- S. 3809 (119th) AI Grand Challenges Act of 2026Identical bill
- H.R. 8516 (119th) American Leadership in AI ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.