DHS must report yearly on how terror groups use AI.
H.R. 1736 — Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act · Filed by August Pfluger (R-TX) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The Department of Homeland Security must write reports every year for six years. Each report explains how foreign terror groups use AI like ChatGPT. They use it to spread propaganda, recruit people, and build weapons. DHS works with spy agencies and state fusion centers to gather facts. They share what they learn with Congress and the public.
Who it affects
Citizens learn how the government sees terror use of AI. Congress gets briefings. Federal agencies and state fusion centers share facts with each other.
One thing to notice
The reports must stop after six years unless Congress votes to keep them. If terror AI threats change after year six, Congress must act again.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Feb 27, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 27, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Homeland Security and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence”
- Mar 25, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Sep 3, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 0”
- Nov 19, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4783-4784)”
- Nov 19, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guest moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $630,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 26 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
August Pfluger, who sponsored the bill, received $1,106,325 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Fdd Action — $530,000 in 2 reports
- American Security Fund — $60,000 in 2 reports
- Association of National Advertisers — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- propaganda — Information spread to convince people of a certain belief or cause.
- fusion centers — Offices where local, state, and federal law enforcement share security facts.
- spy agencies — Federal offices that gather and analyze facts about national security threats.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (6,572 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,928 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-03.
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