A bill written only to make an audit recommendation happen — with an implementation plan due to Congress in 45 days
H.R.8664, the SBA AI Adoption Reporting Act of 2026, requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, acting through its Chief Information Officer, to implement the recommendations in a Government Accountability Office report on artificial intelligence adoption, and to submit an implementation plan to Congress within 45 days of enactment.
Bill overview (primary data)
- Bill numberH.R. 8664
- TypeHouse Bill
- Congress119th Congress
- Latest actionReferred to the House Committee on Small Business.（2026-05-04）
Key points
- H.R.8664 requires the SBA Administrator, through the Chief Information Officer, to implement the recommendations in a specific GAO report on AI adoption.
- The subject is Artificial Intelligence: Uses and Risks for Small Business Contracting and Innovation Research (GAO-26-107828, published May 4, 2026).
- An implementation plan is due to both small business committees within 45 days of enactment.
- The plan covers policies and procedures to disclose the agency own AI use and consideration.
- The report publication date and the bill introduction date are both May 4, 2026 — a circuit between audit and legislation.
1A recommendation does not move on its own
The Government Accountability Office audits agencies and issues recommendations for improvement. Those recommendations carry no legal force, and it is not unusual for them to sit unimplemented. This bill exists solely to name one such recommendation and require it be carried out.
The subject is the report Artificial Intelligence: Uses and Risks for Small Business Contracting and Innovation Research (GAO-26-107828, published May 4, 2026).
2A notably short deadline
- 1Duty to implementThe Administrator, through the Chief Information Officer, takes the actions necessary to implement the report recommendations
- 2Plan submissionNot later than 45 days after enactment, submit an implementation plan
- 3Where it goesThe House Committee on Small Business and the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- 4What the plan coversActions the agency will undertake to establish and implement policies and procedures disclosing its AI use and consideration
Forty-five days is short even among the bills this site covers. Where 180 days or a year is common, 45 days is not time to design a new program. The premise is that what to do has already been set out in the recommendation, so nothing needs reconsidering — only a statement of what will be done by when.
3Audit and legislation
The date the GAO report was published and the date this bill was introduced are the same: May 4, 2026. A bill requiring implementation appeared on the day the audit result landed, illustrating that a circuit exists between the auditing body and the legislature.
4What is being disclosed
The plan must cover establishing and implementing policies and procedures to disclose the agency own artificial intelligence use and consideration — machinery for an agency to make plain how it is using AI itself, which bears on the transparency of the regulating side. Of the 120 bills this site holds as of 2026-09-02, 94 (78 percent) remain referred to committee.
Why it matters
An agency establishing policies to disclose its own AI use bears on the transparency of the regulating side. Using legislation to force implementation of an audit recommendation is one answer where administrative improvement stalls.
FAQ
Why legislate to implement a recommendation?
Why only 45 days?
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. 8664（119th Congress）