Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker

There is growing momentum for AI regulation. How will Congress act?

Published November 9, 2026

Preface

The Brennan Center’s Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker monitors bills introduced in Congress to govern how the technology is developed and deployed. As pressure for federal regulation mounts, the tracker provides insight into the regulatory options that lawmakers are considering.

The tracker focuses on measures that directly impact AI safety and security and does not cover other forms of AI governance, such as measures to direct federal funding towards the buildout of AI infrastructure, or agreements to establish government equity stakes in tech companies.

The tracker covers bills from the 119th Congress. In total, we analyzed 56 bills. Of the bills examined, 1 has become law.

Which Bills Are Tracked

We conduct a monthly keyword search of Congress.gov for all bills with the term “artificial intelligence.” We also monitor press releases issued by lawmakers and media reports for bill announcements. From this initial dataset of bills, we only include in our tracker those that contain one or more of the following measures:

Measures to restrict, test, or oversee the development and deployment of frontier models (the most advanced general-purpose AI models at a given time), and establish minimum levels of transparency and accountability;
Similar measures regarding AI systems more generally;
Measures to prevent or mitigate AI’s impacts on civil rights and civil liberties or broader harms to democracy, society, consumers, and the economy, whether from government or non-government uses of the technology; and
Measures to reverse, weaken, or preempt AI laws or regulations.

To the best of our knowledge, our tracker captures all of the bills that fall within categories (1) and (4). But the bills within (2) and (3) are too numerous to track, and we have only included a non-exhaustive sampling.

Where to Find Executive Branch Regulation

These measures are catalogued elsewhere. Tech Policy Press, for example, tracks executive orders, proclamations, and official documents issued by the second Trump administration on AI. The federal government also posts AI use case inventory submissions by federal agencies on Github.

How to Use the Tracker

The tracker organizes the bills into three categories: the risks they address, their regulatory approaches, and the federal entities designated to enforce and oversee compliance. Each sub-category is described below. You can filter the bills by one or more sub-categories.