HR8037-119

In Committee

Protect American AI Act of 2026

119th Congress Introduced Mar 24, 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, Protect American AI Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Energy, Transportation.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users 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, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HC68D25E6B6254CB995D3078376989071: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect American AI Act of 2026.
  • Section H7E481F2682BD4872BB067828D01E2F1D: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term covered application means an application for an authorization to site, construct, expand, or operate a— data center; or...
  • Section H95E33E2F0815487795568C3D5FF86C67: 3. Effect of litigation on data center and covered infrastructure applications A civil action relating to an environmental review under the Natural Gas Act (15...
  • Section HCAFEE4787E2446B284831DF0606B494D: 4. Action on covered applications Except for review in the Supreme Court of the United States, the court of appeals of the United States for the circuit in...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Protect American AI Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Energy, Transportation

Primary Purpose

This bill, Protect American AI Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Energy Transportation

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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federal implementing agencies:
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 24, 2026

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition …

Mar 24, 2026

Introduced in House

Mar 24, 2026

Mr. Baumgartner introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

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
Environment Energy Transportation
Actor Mappings
"federal_implementing_agencies"
→ Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"covered application" §H7E481F2682BD4872BB067828D01E2F1D

an application for an authorization to site, construct, expand, or operate a— data center

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