To codify Executive Order 14319 (relating to preventing woke AI in the Federal Government).
Summary
What This Bill Does
This one-section bill turns Executive Order 14319, published at 90 Federal Register 35389 and described as preventing woke AI in the Federal Government, into statutory law. The bill does not restate the executive order's operational details in its own text; its legal effect is to make the order harder to alter or rescind through ordinary executive action alone. In practical terms, federal agencies using or procuring AI systems would have to treat the executive order's anti-woke-AI requirements as having the force and effect of law unless Congress later changes the statute or a court limits it.
Who Benefits and How
Federal officials who support Executive Order 14319 benefit because codification gives the order statutory durability. AI vendors aligned with the order's requirements benefit if federal procurement favors systems that comply with the order. Federal employees administering AI procurement benefit from a clearer statutory instruction to apply the executive order. Advocacy organizations opposing bias in government AI benefit only indirectly through a clearer law to challenge or debate.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal agencies using artificial intelligence must treat Executive Order 14319 as binding law rather than only presidential policy. Federal AI procurement offices must incorporate the order's requirements into acquisition, review, or compliance processes. AI vendors whose systems conflict with the executive order may face reduced access to federal contracts. Future administrations bear a constraint because they could not simply rescind the executive order without confronting the codifying statute.
Key Provisions
- Provides that Executive Order 14319 has the force and effect of law.
- Codifies the order described as preventing woke artificial intelligence in the Federal Government.
- Restricts future executive discretion to alter the order without congressional action.
- Affects federal AI use and procurement through the incorporated executive-order requirements.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Codifies Executive Order 14319, relating to preventing woke artificial intelligence in the Federal Government, by giving that executive order the force and effect of law.
Key Policy Areas
Artificial Intelligence, Federal Procurement, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Codifies Executive Order 14319, relating to preventing woke artificial intelligence in the Federal Government, by giving that executive order the force and effect of law.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal officials supporting EO 14319
- Compliant AI vendors
- Federal AI procurement staff
- AI policy advocacy organizations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal agencies using AI
- Federal AI procurement offices
- Noncompliant AI vendors
- Future administrations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Patronis (for himself, Mr. Collins, Ms. Tenney, and Mrs. …
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
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