Federal leader will use AI to help kids with cancer.
H.R. 9632 — Accelerating Innovation (AI) for Kids with Cancer Act · Filed by Michael McCaul (R-TX) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates a new federal leader job. This leader will use AI to help find, treat, and stop childhood cancer. The leader will work with the Department of Health and Human Services. The leader will add AI tools to the Cancer Data program for kids. The bill sets up rules so hospitals can share patient data safely. Privacy will be protected. The bill gives $100 million per year from 2027 to 2031.
Who it affects
Families with children who have cancer may get faster treatment. They may get better access to research studies. Hospitals, research centers, and drug makers will share data and use AI tools.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say hospitals must share data or use AI. It does not set up a way to check on the leader's spending or results.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $590,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 40 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Michael McCaul, who sponsored the bill, received $80,800 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Blood Cancer United (fka the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) — $590,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- AI — Computer programs that learn from data to solve problems or make guesses.
- Cancer Data program for kids — A government program that gathers and shares facts about childhood cancer.
- research studies — Tests of new treatments on patients to see if they work.
- 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 full bill text on Jul 10, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Jun 2026 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 2026-09-23.
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