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HR 5784 Passed a chamber

Requires the Small Business Administration to publish free online training modules that help small businesses evaluate artificial intelligence tools, with the materials due within 180 days.

Official title: AI–WISE Act

Next stop Senate: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 17-OCT-2025
Referred 17-OCT-2025
Approved by committee 18-NOV-2025
Reported 12-DEC-2025
On the calendar 12-DEC-2025
Passed 20-JAN-2026
Senate
Received 26-JAN-2026
Key points
  • Requires the Small Business Administration to create AI educational resources and publish them on an existing agency online learning platform.
  • Covers topics such as how AI models work and their limits, how to tell whether output is AI-generated, protecting the privacy of user inputs, and whether a tool is worth adopting.
  • Creates an Advisory Working Group of AI experts, small business outreach staff, and small business association representatives, exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
  • Requires the materials to avoid favoring any particular AI model, tool, or developer, and states that no additional funds are authorized.
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Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (12-DEC-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 20-JAN-2026).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (2) Policy area

Commerce

Sponsor Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI) Cosponsors · 6
■ 4 D■ 2 R