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H.R. 5511119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Sep 19, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025
Introduced:
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Large tech companies would have to test their AI decision-making tools for bias and report findings to the FTC under this bill.
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This bill would require certain large companies to study and document how their AI and automated decision-making systems affect people before and after using them. Companies would have to test for bias across groups defined by race, sex, age, and similar factors, consult outside experts and affected communities, and try to fix serious problems they find. The FTC would keep a public database of company reports so consumers and researchers can see which algorithms are in use and how people can challenge decisions made about them.
The rules would apply to large companies above certain revenue or data thresholds that use algorithms to make or influence important decisions about loans, jobs, housing, healthcare, or education. The FTC would enforce the law, state attorneys general could also sue companies that break it, and a new Bureau of Technology would be created inside the FTC to help carry it out.
Without these requirements, automated systems that affect major life decisions could go unexamined for bias or harm. This bill creates a process meant to make those systems more visible and to give people a way to challenge decisions made about them.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.