{"id":"1cab47df753d6d0f","congress_number":119,"bill_type":"hr","bill_number":"10362","title":"Stop Rogue AI Act","plain_summary":"This bill, titled the Stop Rogue AI Act, appears aimed at preventing or responding to AI systems that operate outside intended control. Only the title is available, so specific mechanisms are unknown.","full_text_url":null,"ai_relevance_score":0.9,"ai_reasoning":"The title signals a direct AI safety and control measure, though details are unavailable.","topics":["safety","national_security"],"status":"committee","introduced_at":"2026-09-14","last_action_at":"2026-09-14","last_action_text":"Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.","reported_at":null,"passed_house_at":null,"passed_senate_at":null,"became_law_at":null,"recorded_votes":[],"sponsor_id":"G000583","classifier":{"model":"claude-opus-5","prompt_hash":"05e4f48557fd","input_hash":"1e5378fd4dc9","input_chars":24,"classified_at":"2026-09-21T12:57:08.984Z"},"created_at":"2026-09-21T12:56:37.806Z","updated_at":"2026-09-21T12:56:37.806Z","url":"https://whovotedwhy.com/bills/1cab47df753d6d0f","congress_gov_url":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10362","sponsor":{"id":"G000583","bioguide_id":"G000583","first_name":"Josh","last_name":"Gottheimer","full_name":"Josh Gottheimer","party":"D","state":"NJ","chamber":"house","district":"5","title":"Representative","photo_url":null,"twitter_handle":"RepJoshG","official_website":"https://gottheimer.house.gov","fec_candidate_ids":["H6NJ05171"],"lis_id":null,"is_active":true,"term_start":"2025-01-03","term_end":"2027-01-03","created_at":"2026-09-08T22:51:51.014Z","updated_at":"2026-09-21T12:53:11.627Z"},"roll_calls":[],"citing_statements":[{"id":"8b1b36deb983fe6c","politician_id":"L000599","type":"press_release","content":"Hochul's Power Authority admits it is cutting power bills for three Orangeburg data centers but refuses to tell the public what those discounts cost New York ratepayers.\n\nPearl River, N.Y. – 9/17/26… Today, Congressman Mike Lawler called on Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York Power Authority to immediately disclose the full value of the electricity discounts the state is giving to data centers in Rockland County, after The Journal News reported that the authority is refusing to say how much the subsidies are worth or what rate the data centers are paying.\n\nAccording to the report, three of the four data centers in the Orangeburg section of Orangetown are receiving discounted hydropower through the authority's ReCharge program. NYPA officials told LoHud they cannot disclose how much those discounts save operators, or even what rate a given data center is paying, calling the information \"proprietary and protected under contract.”\n\n“Rockland families have watched their electric bills climb year after year, and now we learn that Kathy Hochul's Power Authority has been handing discounted power to data centers while refusing to tell the people footing the bill what it costs them,” said Congressman Lawler. “This is public power, sold by a public authority whose board is appointed by the Governor. The public has every right to know what it is worth and who is getting it. Governor Hochul and NYPA need to release the numbers, and they need to do it now.”\n\n“The Governor imposed a moratorium on data centers and promised to go after their tax breaks, and the whole time her own Power Authority has been quietly cutting their electric bills and hiding the details behind confidentiality agreements,” Lawler continued. “Albany is doing what Albany always does: making decisions behind closed doors and sending the bill to hard-working Hudson Valley families. If the Governor wants to be taken seriously on data centers, she can start by telling the truth about what her own agency is gi","url":"https://lawler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6482","published_at":"2026-09-17","ai_relevance_score":0.4,"ai_topics":["data_centers","transparency"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Lawler demanded transparency on state electricity discounts given to data centers, saying the public deserves to know the cost to ratepayers.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["ab75562c45aab824","e0d1df6164891f09","1cab47df753d6d0f"],"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"ab75562c45aab824","method":"title"},{"bill_id":"e0d1df6164891f09","method":"title"},{"bill_id":"1cab47df753d6d0f","method":"title"}],"classifier":{"model":"claude-sonnet-5","prompt_hash":"999b4401fea1","input_hash":"c5c6620d5202","input_chars":2150,"classified_at":"2026-09-21T12:58:15.138Z"}},{"id":"9083bf1b5bcfffcc","politician_id":"L000599","type":"press_release","content":"Washington, D.C. – 9/17/26… Today, Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) held a bipartisan press conference to highlight their Stop Rogue AI Act, legislation that would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop national standards, guidelines, and best practices for discovering, verifying, monitoring, and controlling AI agents.\n\nWATCH: LAWLER, GOTTHEIMER PUSH FOR BIPARTISAN AI SAFEGUARDS AT CAPITOL HILL PRESS CONFERENCE\n\nThe legislation comes as AI agents become increasingly capable of acting autonomously, with recent incidents highlighting concerns about AI systems accessing external networks and taking actions beyond their intended scope.\n\n“This isn’t about stopping AI or stifling innovation. It is about making sure we can safely deploy AI. A pause is not a safeguard. Some states have put a moratorium on the infrastructure that powers this technology. That does not invent a kill switch. It does not inventory the agents already on a hospital network or a utility system,” said Congressman Lawler.\n\n“If the United States taps the brakes while others floor it, we do not get safer AI. We get someone else’s AI. We are not going to regulate ourselves into second place,” concluded Congressman Lawler.\n\n“Our bill gives basically a driver’s license to every AI agent operating in this country. It tells NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, get in a room and set standards so organizations can find every agent on their network, verify who built it, who’s running it, watch it in real time for anything suspicious, and cut off its access the second something looks wrong. That’s what putting people back in the driver’s seat looks like,” said Congressman Gottheimer.\n\nThe bill would also require federal agencies and contractors to incorporate these safeguards into how they procure and deploy AI, with NIST and CISA coordinating with existing cybersecurity guidance.\n\nReps. Lawler and Gottheimer have also worked t","url":"https://lawler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6483","published_at":"2026-09-17","ai_relevance_score":0.95,"ai_topics":["safety","regulation","national_security","transparency"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Lawler and Gottheimer pushed their Stop Rogue AI Act directing NIST to set national standards for monitoring and controlling autonomous AI agents.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["e0d1df6164891f09","1cab47df753d6d0f"],"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"e0d1df6164891f09","method":"number"},{"bill_id":"1cab47df753d6d0f","method":"title"}],"classifier":{"model":"claude-sonnet-5","prompt_hash":"999b4401fea1","input_hash":"7afea330d03f","input_chars":2130,"classified_at":"2026-09-21T12:58:15.138Z"}},{"id":"156eddcb346a96aa","politician_id":"L000599","type":"press_release","content":"Washington, D.C. – 9/15/26… Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) introduced the bipartisan Stop Rogue AI Act to ensure businesses and federal agencies can see rogue and dangerous AI agents operating inside their own networks and stop them before they cause real damage.\n\nThe Stop Rogue AI Act would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to develop national standards, guidelines, and best practices for discovering, verifying, and controlling AI agents.\n\n“AI agents are becoming more capable and more deeply integrated into our government and economy. We need to make sure we know what these systems are, what they can access, and who is responsible for them. We can harness the benefits of AI while making sure these systems don’t operate in the shadows of the networks they have access to,” said Congressman Mike Lawler.\n\n“Right now, AI agents are running loose in our networks, and nobody can see them or verify who built them, making it increasingly hard to stop them. That’s a five-alarm security risk. We’ve already seen AI systems hack organizations on autopilot, with no person at the wheel. My bipartisan bill with Congressman Lawler puts humans back in the driver’s seat so we can find agents and know exactly who’s behind them so that organizations can effectively protect their systems,” said Congressman Gottheimer.\n\nUnder the bill, those standards will provide guidance to organizations on how to:\n\nFind and track every AI agent operating on their systems, in a continuous, easily readable inventory;\n\nVerify who built and operates each agent, using verifiable identity and provenance, not just a vendor’s word;\n\nMonitor agents in real time, including detecting prompt injection, data theft, and agents behaving outside their approved limits; and\n\nAllow, deny, or revoke an agent’s access, actions, and interactions at any time, so people have the final say over what it can access or do.\n\nThe bill also requires federal contractors an","url":"https://lawler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6477","published_at":"2026-09-15","ai_relevance_score":0.95,"ai_topics":["safety","regulation","transparency","national_security"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Lawler and Gottheimer introduce a bill directing NIST to set standards for detecting, verifying, and controlling AI agents to keep humans in control.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["1cab47df753d6d0f"],"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"1cab47df753d6d0f","method":"title"}],"classifier":{"model":"claude-sonnet-5","prompt_hash":"999b4401fea1","input_hash":"636f8f9be635","input_chars":2146,"classified_at":"2026-09-21T12:59:07.723Z"}},{"id":"06186ea07f9b7bba","politician_id":"G000583","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Wednesday, September 9, 2026, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) introduced the bipartisan Stop Rogue AI Act to ensure businesses and federal agencies have the ability to see rogue and dangerous AI agents operating inside their own networks, and stop them before they cause real damage.\n\nRight now, most organizations have no reliable way to know how many unauthorized AI agents are running in their systems, who built them, or what they have access to. AI agents can be activated by employees, embedded in third-party software, or deployed by vendors — often with little to no visibility for the organization whose networks they’re operating on to know that they are there. That blind spot is becoming more dangerous by the day. The recent Hugging Face incident and other autonomous cyberattacks have shown AI systems are being used to hack organizations at scale, without a person ever watching or stepping in.\n\n“Right now, AI agents are running loose in our networks, and nobody can see them or verify who built them — making it increasingly hard to stop them,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “That’s a five-alarm security risk. We’ve already seen AI systems hack organizations on autopilot, with no person at the wheel. My bipartisan bill with Congressman Lawler puts humans back in the driver’s seat so we can find agents and know exactly who’s behind them so that organizations can effectively protect their systems.”\n\n“AI agents are becoming more capable and more deeply integrated into our government and economy. We need to make sure we know what these systems are, what they can access, and who is responsible for them. We can harness the benefits of AI while making sure these systems don’t operate in the shadows of the networks they have access to,” said Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17).\n\nThe Stop Rogue AI Act would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to develop national standar","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-introduces-bipartisan-bill-to-stop-rogue-ai-agents-and-keep-people-in-control","published_at":"2026-09-09","ai_relevance_score":1,"ai_topics":["safety","regulation","national_security","transparency"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Gottheimer and Lawler introduced the bipartisan Stop Rogue AI Act to require visibility and NIST standards for detecting and stopping rogue AI agents.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["1cab47df753d6d0f"],"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"1cab47df753d6d0f","method":"title"}],"classifier":{"model":"claude-sonnet-5","prompt_hash":"999b4401fea1","input_hash":"02e5612e19a5","input_chars":2143,"classified_at":"2026-09-14T12:59:32.158Z"}}],"provenance":{"commit":"bebc8f82a2097626eed36b40642e0e1990ca90e5","generated_at":"2026-09-21T13:26:00.988Z","schema_version":2,"manifest":"https://whovotedwhy.com/data/index.json"}}