{"id":252671,"date":"2026-05-22T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/house-lawmakers-seek-more-ai-transparency-from-the-sba\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:00:10","slug":"house-lawmakers-seek-more-ai-transparency-from-the-sba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/house-lawmakers-seek-more-ai-transparency-from-the-sba\/","title":{"rendered":"House lawmakers seek more AI transparency from the SBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/house-small-business-committee-sba-ai-bills\/\">House lawmakers seek more AI transparency from the SBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/house-small-business-committee-sba-ai-bills\/\">https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/house-small-business-committee-sba-ai-bills\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 13:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fedscoop.com\">fedscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House Small Business Committee continued its push this week to make the agency it oversees embrace artificial intelligence in its work, advancing a new AI-focused bill aimed at more transparency around those efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday markup, the committee unanimously approved the SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act (H.R. 8881) from Reps. Brad Finstad, R-Minn., and George Latimer, D-N.Y. The legislation would require the Small Business Administration to provide a yearly report to Congress on its use of AI and machine learning, detailing the benefits, risks and related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Additional oversight on SBA\u2019s AI program from the committee comes in the wake of a Government Accountability Office report this month that called attention to years of SBA failures to comply with federal requirements on AI use case inventories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In March, the agency publicly posted its inventory \u2014 two months past the Office of Management and Budget deadline, but for the first time in SBA history nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>The House committee spent the early part of this year on legislation to provide the SBA with more AI tools to help its clients. In January, the full chamber passed both the AI for Main Street Act and the AI Wisdom for Innovative Small Enterprises (AI-WISE) Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former bill, led by Reps. Mark Alford, R-Mo., and Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., directs the SBA\u2019s Small Business Development Centers to provide guidance, training and outreach to small businesses on any matters tied to AI. The latter bill, from Scholten and Rep. Troy Downing, R-Mont., charges the SBA with creating AI resources and learning modules for small businesses to be hosted on an existing agency platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finstad said during Wednesday\u2019s markup that the committee\u2019s latest bill is simply a \u201ccommonsense oversight measure\u201d that would neither mandate the use of AI at the SBA nor \u201cprohibit innovation\u201d with the technology at the agency. 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