To amend the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 to require the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a prize competition program relating to artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9506.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEGICH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 108, June 29, 2026, Page H4317):
  Article 1, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 29, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  21 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9506, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9506

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3ad4e65db4d328c7757bd4402fc8e6c2d2206f2a5da4cf341164ef3a2b6b8432

  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 July 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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