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AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917)
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require certain entities to maintain a technical capability with respect to shutting down certain technology, and for other purposes.
Sammanfattning
Requires entities that operate a covered AI system and make it available to third parties to maintain a capability to stop inference, suspend access and shut the system down, and authorises the Secretary of Homeland Security to order those actions.
Omfattning
Artificial intelligence systems developed with over $100,000,000 of computing power, operated and made available to third parties by entities above a $500,000,000 revenue threshold.
Kräver
- disable-capability
- slow-capability
- incident-reporting
- record-preservation
Datum
introduced: 2026-07-23 | adopted: — | inForce: — | appliesFrom: —
Förslagsställare
Ted Lieu; Nathaniel Moran; Suhas Subramanyam; Anna Paulina Luna
Källor
- GovInfo, U.S. Government Publishing Office — 2026-10-05 — primary — https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr9917ih/xml/BILLS-119hr9917ih.xml
- GovInfo, U.S. Government Publishing Office — 2026-10-05 — primary — https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/hr/BILLSTATUS-119hr9917.xml
- Office of Rep. Ted Lieu — 2026-07-23 — primary — https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-moran-introduce-bill-require-kill-switch-ai-systems-can
Anteckningar
Why regulates is recorded as unclear
Section 2220F(g)(4) defines a covered entity by three conjunctive limbs:
(A) Operates a covered technology or operates a system that incorporates such technology. (B) Makes such technology available to a third party through a programmatic interface, hosted service, or similar mechanism. (C) Derives together with the affiliates of such entity not less than $500,000,000 in gross revenue from such technology in the preceding calendar year.
The test does not key on building or training a model. An entity that trains a covered
model without serving it falls outside it. So does an entity that operates a system
incorporating covered technology without making that technology available to third
parties. Neither developer nor deployer describes the test, so this entry records
unclear and quotes the definition instead of resolving it.
This definition has been retrieved three times across three verification passes, with consistent wording and consistent section numbers.
Required capability
(i) Stop inference of a covered technology of such covered entity. (ii) Terminate user access to such technology. (iii) Suspend access to any such technology identified by the Secretary as posing a risk. (iv) Shut down such technology.
The reporting duty sits at section 2220F(b)(1)(B): a report to the Secretary within “15 days after such covered entity becomes aware of a covered incident”. The preservation duty sits at section 2220F(c)(2)(A): “Preserve the model weights and telemetry of such technology.”
Covered technology is defined at section 2220F(g)(6) as “An artificial intelligence system developed utilizing a quantity of computing power the cost of which would exceed $100,000,000 at the prevailing market price of cloud computing.”
Legislative status
Introduced and referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security on 2026-07-23, and referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on 2026-07-24. That referral is the latest recorded action. Representatives Subramanyam and Luna were added as cosponsors on 2026-09-15.
The bill-status record was not re-retrievable on 2026-10-12, so the absence of later action is a search result rather than a verified absence as of that date.