H.R. 10315 — AI LABS Act (bill text)

H.R. 10315 is a bill of the 119th Congress, 2d Session, introduced in the House of Representatives on September 8, 2026 by Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5) "for himself and Mr. Obernolte," and referred the same day to the Committee on Education and Workforce. Its short title is the "AI Learning, Advancement, and Building Skills Act" or "AI LABS Act." Its long title is "To direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to support the establishment and expansion of curricula in artificial intelligence in elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes." This page summarizes the Introduced-in-House text, the only version available (Source: congress.gov). The topic page is AI LABS Act (H.R. 10315, 119th Congress).

The bill has two sections. Section 1 supplies the short title; section 2 carries the grant program, the uses of funds, a study and report, and the definitions.

The grant program

Section 2(a) directs the Secretary of Education to "carry out a program under which the Secretary makes grants to States, on a competitive basis, to support the establishment and expansion of educational programs on artificial intelligence in elementary and secondary schools." The grantee is the State. The text does not provide for grants to local educational agencies or individual schools, and it does not require a State to subgrant to them.

Section 2(b) sets eligibility by application only: a State submits an application "at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require." The text sets no selection criteria, grant size, grant period, matching requirement, priority for any category of school or student, or deadline for establishing the program. It contains no authorization of appropriations.

Uses of funds

Under section 2(c) a grantee State "shall use such grant to establish or expand educational programs on artificial intelligence in elementary and secondary schools," through two channels:

1. "the development of dedicated curricula to teach students how use and understand artificial intelligence" (§ 2(c)(1); the omitted "to" is in the text as introduced); and
2. "professional education for teachers to help teachers better understand artificial intelligence and incorporate it into teaching workflows" (§ 2(c)(2)).

The two uses are the only ones listed. The text does not mention equipment, hardware, software licences, facilities or physical laboratories; "LABS" appears only in the acronym of the short title.

Study and report

Section 2(d)(1) requires the Secretary to study the grant program and, as part of the study, to (A) identify the States receiving funds; (B) analyze how States are using the funds; and (C) based on that analysis, "develop recommendations for future programs to support the training of students and teachers in artificial intelligence to ensure the United States remains a world leader in artificial intelligence education."

Section 2(d)(2) requires a report on the study to the House Committee on Education and Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions "[n]ot later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act." The report deadline runs from enactment rather than from the first award.

Definitions

Section 2(e), which applies to the whole Act, borrows its terms from existing statutes rather than defining them afresh:

The same National AI Initiative Act definition is used in other 119th Congress AI bills, including H.R. 10146. The text does not define "AI literacy," "curricula" or "professional education."

Comparison with the announcement

Gottheimer announced the bill on September 4, 2026, four days before introduction, as part of what his office called a "Bipartisan Back-to-School Agenda for AI in K-12 Education." The release states that the legislation "directs the Department of Education to create a new federal grant program or make resources from existing grant programs available to help K-12 schools establish dedicated AI labs, much like the computer and typing labs that became a fixture in schools a generation ago," and that it "builds on recommendations from the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association" (Source: gottheimer.house.gov). The introduced text differs from that description in three respects:

• It creates a new competitive grant program and does not refer to existing grant programs.
• The grantees are States, not K-12 schools.
• The funded activities are curricula and teacher professional education; physical labs are not mentioned.

The release's account of the study (who receives the resources, how they are used, and recommendations on future investment) matches § 2(d). A Nextgov/FCW weekly roundup of technology bills followed the release's description (Source: nextgov.com).

Provenance

Full text of the Introduced-in-House (ih) version, retrieved from congress.gov on September 24, 2026 during a gap-scan backlog sweep and ingested through the queue task INGEST-hr-10315-ai-labs-act-2026.md. Dublin Core metadata served with the page records bill number H.R.10315, creator Rep. Gottheimer, date 09/08/2026 and title "AI LABS Act," matching the document header; the overview table recorded referral to the House Committee on Education and Workforce on 09/08/2026 and status Introduced. Only one version of the bill exists. Site chrome was removed at capture; the bill text is complete. XML and PDF versions are at congress.gov and congress.gov. The September 2026 digests had cited only the bill's all-actions page, which carries status rather than text.

Relationships

• related: AI LABS Act (H.R. 10315, 119th Congress) — the topic page this text underlies.
• instance-of: AI in Education — federal grant funding for K-12 AI instruction.
• related: AI Literacy — curricula teaching students how to use and understand AI.
• related: LIFT AI Act (Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence Act) — the Senate K-12 AI-literacy grant bill, routed through the NSF rather than the Department of Education.
• related: Josh Gottheimer — sponsor; Jay Obernolte — original cosponsor.
• related: Education — AI Deployment — the sector the grants would fund.