I’m proud to co-lead the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act, which will help build trust in AI by requiring clear, upfront information about how foundation models are trained, tested, and operated.
Co-lead legislation to require transparency requirements for AI foundation models.
Occurrences
03/26/26 Jacobs, Beyer, Matsui, Lieu, McClain Delaney Introduce Legislation to Repeal White House AI Moratorium
Jacobs and colleagues introduced the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act to establish transparency requirements for AI foundation models.
Evidence
Official House press release says Rep. Sara Jacobs co-led the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act with Reps. Don Beyer and Mike Lawler, introducing it to establish transparency requirements for how AI foundation models are built, trained, and deployed.
The bill text directs the FTC to establish requirements for public information about training data, documentation, testing, data collection during inference, and operations of AI foundation models.
Assessments
The promise was to co-lead legislation imposing transparency requirements on AI foundation models, not necessarily to enact it into law. Evidence shows Sara Jacobs did co-lead and introduce the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act in March 2026, and the bill text includes the promised transparency requirements covering training, testing, documentation, inference data collection, and operations. Because she personally helped author and launch the legislation while in office, this counts as delivered in the same term.