Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act (H.R.1736) — after passing the House and reaching a Senate committee, a senator filed a same-named bill to the very same committee
A House bill requiring the Department of Homeland Security to provide Congress with periodic assessments of terrorism threats to the United States posed by the use of generative artificial intelligence, and to review and disseminate related information gathered by fusion centers while other federal agencies share such information with DHS. Introduced in February 2025, it passed the House and was received in the Senate in November 2025.
Bill overview (primary data)
- Bill numberH.R. 1736
- TypeHouse Bill
- Congress119th Congress
- Latest actionReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.（2025-11-20）
Key points
- Requires DHS to give Congress periodic assessments of terrorism threats posed by the use of generative AI.
- Requires DHS to review and disseminate related information gathered by state and major urban area fusion centers and the National Network of Fusion Centers.
- Requires other federal agencies to share related information with DHS; no new organisation is created.
- Introduced 2025-02-27, passed the House, and was received in the Senate on 2025-11-20 and referred to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- The same committee also holds S.4762, filed under the same title by a senator in June 2026.
- The House version runs three sections with definitions inside; Senate S.4762 runs four with a standalone definitions section.
1Reporting and information flow rather than new authority
What the bill asks for is not regulation of generative AI but assessment of the threat and circulation of what is known. DHS delivers periodic assessments to Congress; DHS reviews and disseminates what fusion centers gather; other federal agencies share related information with DHS. Those three are the structure.
Fusion centers are arrangements in which federal, state, local and tribal agencies pool resources and information, and they spread across the country after 2001. By running a subject through an existing sharing mechanism, the bill avoids creating an organisation.
2Whether definitions come first separates the versions
Generative AI is described as the class of models that emulate the structure and characteristics of input data to produce derived synthetic content. Images, video, audio and text are listed, and no specific technology is named.
Against the companion Senate bill S.4762, the Senate version carries a standalone definitions section and runs to four sections; the House version has three and places definitions inside the body. The 236 differing lines mostly follow from that, while the assessment and information-sharing skeleton is common to both.
3The same content now sits in the Senate by two routes
The House bill took nearly a year from its 2025-02-27 introduction to pass the House, and was received in the Senate on 2025-11-20 and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Some seven months later, on 2026-06-11, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced S.4762 under the same title, referred to that same committee.
The committee therefore holds two versions: one sent over after passing the House, and one filed fresh by a senator. Of the 114 AI-related bills this site holds as of 2026-08-31, 12 pairs share a title across the two chambers, and this is the pair in which one half has already been transmitted to the other chamber. The record does not indicate how the two will be handled.
4The same content exists in two versions
Comparing the House and Senate versions, the skeleton of what they require — assessment and information sharing — is common. The difference lies in where the definitions sit.
The diff runs to 236 lines, yet the three pillars are shared: DHS delivering periodic assessments to Congress, DHS reviewing and disseminating what fusion centers gather, and other federal agencies sharing information with DHS. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee therefore holds two versions side by side — one sent over after passing the House, one newly introduced by a senator.
Why it matters
Debate about generative AI safety tends to gather around product regulation, while this bill sets procedure for the side that collects and assesses information. Because it runs a subject through the existing fusion center network, no new reporting duty falls directly on private parties. The same content sitting in the Senate by two routes shows that companion bills do not necessarily arrive tidily.
FAQ
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Sources (primary)
Source: Congress.gov (Library of Congress; U.S. legislative materials, public domain). Links go to the official site.
- Congress.gov (bill page, original)
- H.R. 1736（119th Congress）