{"id":218799,"date":"2026-05-22T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/house-lawmakers-seek-more-ai-transparency-from-the-sba\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:05:10","slug":"house-lawmakers-seek-more-ai-transparency-from-the-sba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The House Small Business Committee advanced the SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act (H.R. 8881) to promote transparency in the Small Business Administration&#8217;s (SBA) use of AI by requiring annual reports to Congress detailing its use and implications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This legislation follows a Government Accountability Office report highlighting SBA\u2019s delays in complying with federal AI inventory requirements.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Earlier this year, two other bills were passed to enhance SBA\u2019s AI tools for small businesses, encouraging the agency\u2019s adoption and education of AI technologies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A statement by Rep. Brad Finstad emphasized that the oversight measure aims to provide Congress with a better understanding of AI tools without hindering innovation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Two additional tech-related bills were also advanced: the Small Business Technological Act (H.R. 915) permitting 7(a) loans for modern business tools, and the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act (H.R. 8880) aiming for a GAO evaluation of cybersecurity risks and available federal support for small businesses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House lawmakers seek more AI transparency from the SBA https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/house-small-business-committee-sba-ai-bills\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 13:57:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2243287444.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218801,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218799\/revisions\/218801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}