S. 5252 Introduced Foreign Trade and International Finance

BLADE Act

A bill to prevent foreign adversaries from threatening the national security of the United States by extracting key technical features of closed-source, United States-owned artificial intelligence models, and for other purposes.

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. To President
  6. Became law
Sponsor Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] Introduced August 5, 2026 Cosponsors 5 (3 D, 2 R) Latest action August 5, 2026

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  1. Aug 5, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
  2. Aug 5, 2026 Introduced in Senate

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