Right to Override Act
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
This bill requires employers of health care professionals to let them override AI clinical decision support systems using independent judgment, and to adopt policies, training, and an advisory committee on such systems. It bars retaliation against clinicians who override AI outputs, with HHS and the Department of Labor enforcing through civil penalties, administrative complaints, and civil actions.
Model-rated AI relevance 97%: The bill is entirely about governing the use of AI clinical decision systems and human oversight of them. (claude-opus-5, Sep 9, 2026)
Sponsored by
Edward MarkeyDemocratMAData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Oct 9, 2025
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 · October 9, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Sanders would permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause advanced AI development until a new federal regulator sets safety rules.
Source ↗Warnock calls for a statewide moratorium on AI data center construction unless projects guarantee no utility cost hikes, no NDAs, no tax giveaways, and no pollution.
Source ↗Hawley is investigating AI surveillance camera companies, arguing Congress never authorized these invasive AI-driven networks and that corporate self-policing is an inadequate safeguard.
Source ↗Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
Source ↗Evans promotes American open-source AI leadership against China while adding commonsense consumer guardrails and mandated federal risk assessments of adversary models.
Source ↗Landsman's Doctors Not AI Act would keep licensed clinicians, not algorithms, in charge of medical-necessity decisions with transparency for patients.
Source ↗Schrier's Doctors Not AI Act would require doctors rather than AI systems to make health coverage decisions, with oversight and disclosure.
Source ↗Harrigan backs bipartisan monitoring of self-improving AI through NIST while stressing the bill imposes no new mandates and won't impede innovation.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z