Healthy Technology Act of 2025
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Would allow AI or machine learning technology to legally qualify as a prescribing practitioner for drugs, if authorized by state law and cleared or approved under federal medical device rules. This would be a major shift in who — or what — can prescribe medication.
Model-rated AI relevance 95%.
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David SchweikertRepublicanAZData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Jan 7, 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 · January 7, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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 ↗Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
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 ↗Jacobs introduces bipartisan legislation creating a DoD-wide AI incident and vulnerability reporting program to make military AI safer and more accountable.
Source ↗Whitesides introduces the Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act to give federal evaluators visibility into frontier labs' automated AI R&D and reduce superintelligence risk.
Source ↗Trahan touts endorsement of her bipartisan FRONTIER Act, which would impose binding federal safety frameworks, third-party audits, and incident reporting on frontier AI developers.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z