American Voices in Federal Lands Act
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Requires the Bureau of Land Management to count only U.S. citizens' public comments and to deploy CAPTCHA tests to block AI bots from flooding its public comment system. It targets automated manipulation of federal rulemaking input.
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John BarrassoRepublicanWYData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Jul 10, 2025
Reported by committee
Dec 17, 2025
Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · December 17, 2025
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
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 ↗Jacobs introduces bipartisan legislation creating a DoD-wide AI incident and vulnerability reporting program to make military AI safer and more accountable.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z