Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act. It requires the NIST Director, subject to appropriations, to develop or identify and disseminate resources for small business concerns relating to artificial intelligence. Those resources may include technical standards, best practices, benchmarks, methodologies, procedures, or processes for understanding, adopting, or integrating AI. The resources must be generally applicable and usable by a wide range of small businesses, include basic understanding and proper-use-case adoption elements, and address relevant risks such as cybersecurity, privacy, and reliability through NIST's existing small-business outreach role.
Who Benefits and How
Small business owners benefit from plain, generally usable AI resources instead of having to rely only on large-vendor guidance or consultants. Small business technology staff benefit from benchmarks, methodologies, procedures, and best practices for evaluating AI tools. AI software vendors serving small businesses benefit because NIST guidance can make adoption easier and reduce uncertainty for customers. Small Business Development Centers and other business-assistance providers benefit from Federal resources they can share with clients. NIST benefits from explicit statutory direction to tailor AI resources to small business concerns.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The NIST Director must develop or identify the resources and disseminate them through the existing small-business assistance framework. NIST staff must keep materials broadly applicable, technically sound, and useful for firms with limited technology capacity. Federal appropriators and taxpayers bear the funding burden if Congress provides money for the work. Small businesses adopting AI still must interpret and apply the guidance to procurement, privacy, cybersecurity, workforce, and operational decisions.
Key Provisions
- Requires NIST to develop or identify AI resources for small business concerns, subject to appropriations.
- Authorizes resources such as technical standards, best practices, benchmarks, methodologies, procedures, and processes.
- Requires resources to support understanding, adoption, and integration of artificial intelligence.
- Requires resources to be generally applicable and usable by a wide range of small businesses.
- Directs dissemination through NIST's existing small-business resource framework.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop or identify and disseminate artificial-intelligence resources for small business concerns, including standards, best practices, benchmarks, methodologies, procedures, and processes for understanding, adopting, and integrating AI.
Key Policy Areas
Technology, Small Business, Artificial Intelligence
Primary Purpose
Requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop or identify and disseminate artificial-intelligence resources for small business concerns, including standards, best practices, benchmarks, methodologies, procedures, and processes for understanding, adopting, and integrating AI.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Small business owners
- Small business technology staff
- AI software vendors
- Small Business Development Centers
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
Identified Costs
- NIST Director
- NIST staff
- Federal taxpayers
- Small businesses adopting AI
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2244-2245)
Mr. Babin moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 429.
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Small business owners, Small business technology staff
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "nist"
- → National Institute of Standards and Technology
- "director"
- → NIST Director
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