HR7786-119

In Committee

AI Fraud Accountability Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 4, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, AI Fraud Accountability Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors. The main policy domain is Criminal Justice, Technology, Government Operations.

Who Benefits and How

law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HE6CB2DDECBBA4B518D7CFA2409A4A402: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the AI Fraud Accountability Act.
  • Section HB754F20E2F604754A0C09834C1FC042E: 2. Criminal prohibition on use of digital impersonations to commit fraud Section 223 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 223) is amended— by...
  • Section H483782CF6F014844ADCB3BFFF0229B9B: 3. Protection against digital impersonation fraud Subject to paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for a person, in interstate or foreign commerce, to falsely...
  • Section HF28F18FCA49D45F98FD6C139B4B2DE10: 4. Working group on digital impersonation fraud In this section: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Commerce, Science, and...
  • Section H225EEC9882394BED8F8816E0E3410149: 5. Cooperation with foreign law enforcement agencies Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Federal Trade Commission (in this...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, AI Fraud Accountability Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.

Key Policy Areas

Criminal Justice, Technology, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, AI Fraud Accountability Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.

Policy Domains

Criminal Justice Technology Government Operations

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies: ,
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 4, 2026

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …

Mar 4, 2026

Introduced in House

Mar 4, 2026

Mr. Buchanan (for himself and Mr. Soto) introduced the following …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Criminal Justice Technology Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_commerce"
→ Secretary of Commerce

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"identifiable individual" §HB754F20E2F604754A0C09834C1FC042E

an individual— who appears in whole or in part, or is heard, in a digital impersonation

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

Learn more about our methodology