Comment by Don Beyer

U.S. Representative from Virginia's 8th district; co-sponsor of the GUARDRAILS Act on AI
The Commission [...] shall [...] promulgate regulations that [...] include requirements for a covered entity—(i) to submit specified information related to each foundation model provided by the entity to the Commission [...] The term “covered entity” means any person, partnership, or corporation [...] that provides use of or services from a foundation model which [...] was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10²⁶ integer or floating point operations, including computing used by the entity for the original training run and for any subsequent fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or other material modifications the entity applies.
AI Verified (Mar 19, 2026)
Like Share on X 49min ago

Policy proposals and claims

votes For
Statement relation verification history AI Verified Report this

Statement relation comments

AI Verified The official bill requires covered entities to submit model information to the FTC, and expressly covers models trained above 10²⁶ operations; the FTC is a designated national authority. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 23min ago
Vote inference verification history AI Verified Report this

Vote answer comments

AI Verified Recorded “for” matches the bill language requiring submission to the FTC for covered foundation models, including models trained above 10²⁶ FLOPs. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 23min ago

Quote authenticity verification history

Report this

Quote authenticity comments

AI Verified Official Beyer House PDF names Mr. Beyer as introducer, is dated March 19, 2026, and contains the quoted FTC-submission and 10²⁶-FLOP provisions. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 23min ago
replying to Don Beyer