Facial Recognition to Protect Children Act
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Only the title was provided. It refers to using facial recognition to protect children.
Model-rated AI relevance 60%: Facial recognition is an AI technology, but the bill's focus is unclear from the title alone. (claude-opus-5-5, Oct 22, 2026)
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Josh GottheimerDemocratNJData as of: bills Oct 22, 2026 · votes Oct 21, 2026 · statements Oct 19, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Jul 15, 2026
Reported by committee
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · July 15, 2026
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Gottheimer would mandate facial recognition age-estimation technology on sportsbooks and prediction markets to keep minors from betting, without addressing AI policy broadly.
Source ↗Tlaib introduces a bill to ban federal funding for AI-enabled mass surveillance and facial recognition technologies like Flock cameras.
Source ↗Cortez Masto and Horsford call for worker privacy protections against the sale of employee data to Google for training AI, warning de-identification safeguards may be insufficient.
Source ↗Reed is seeking legislation to ban AI-enabled personalized price discrimination against consumers.
Source ↗Horsford urges enforceable privacy safeguards before employee data can be sold to train AI systems.
Source ↗Merkley co-introduced the Ban Flock Act to prohibit government use of AI-powered license plate surveillance cameras.
Source ↗Sanders introduced the Ban Flock Act to ban AI-powered surveillance cameras tracking Americans without consent.
Source ↗Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Merkley introduce the Ban Flock Act to prohibit government use of AI-powered surveillance cameras like license plate readers.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-10-22T14:48:01.167Z