HR 4980 Battling Infections Transmitted by Ticks and Exposure Act 2025

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Proposed
• Most recent activity date: 2025-08-15

Risk subdomain coverage

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document establishes an AI-enhanced disease surveillance system but does not substantively address AI risks or harms. While the system involves sensitive health data collection and AI-based predictions that could implicate privacy, accuracy, and reliability concerns, the document does not explicitly discuss, regulate, or provide governance measures for these AI-related risks. The focus is entirely on establishing the system's components and objectives rather than managing AI risks.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Information
• Finance & Insurance
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Educational Services
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation primarily governs Public Administration (federal health agencies) and Health Care and Social Assistance sectors. It establishes a national disease surveillance system involving HHS, healthcare facilities, insurance providers, and military medical facilities. The Information sector is implicated through data processing and AI systems, while National Security is addressed through military readiness and DoD access provisions.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a federal bill introduced in the U.S. Congress that uses mandatory language ('shall establish', 'shall have') to create binding legal obligations on the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Once enacted, it would become binding federal law with legal enforceability. However, as an introduced bill not yet passed, it represents proposed Hard Law rather than enacted Hard Law.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Mr. Gottheimer; Mr. Kean; United States Congress; House Committee on Energy and Commerce
• Summary: The bill was introduced by Representatives Gottheimer and Kean in the House of Representatives and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, which are the proposers of this legislative instrument.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Deployer
• Entities: Secretary of Health and Human Services; Department of Health and Human Services; Department of Defense; civilian hospitals; military medical treatment facilities; private or public health insurance providers; schools; workplaces; media; community organizations
• Summary: The primary target is the Secretary of Health and Human Services who must establish and maintain the system. Secondary targets include entities that will participate in or be affected by the system, including DoD, healthcare facilities, insurance providers, and public/community organizations that will be involved in surveillance and education components.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Secretary of Health and Human Services; Department of Health and Human Services; United States Congress
• Summary: The Secretary of Health and Human Services would be the primary enforcer responsible for implementing and maintaining the system as mandated. Congress would provide oversight through its committee structure and appropriations process.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Department of Health and Human Services; House Committee on Energy and Commerce
• Summary: HHS would monitor the implementation and operation of the vector-borne disease prevention system. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce would conduct Congressional oversight as the referring committee.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Plan and Design
• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document mandates the establishment of an AI-enhanced early warning system but does not detail specific lifecycle stages of development. It implicitly covers the Plan and Design stage (establishing system requirements), Build and Use Model (creating the AI prediction system), Deploy (making the system operational), and Operate and Monitor (delivering real-time alerts and maintaining the system). Data collection is explicitly mentioned through various surveillance mechanisms.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Models
• AI Systems
• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions an 'artificial intelligence-enhanced early warning system' for disease prediction but does not specify details about AI model types, capabilities, or technical specifications. The AI application is clearly task-specific (predictive AI for vector-borne disease forecasting) rather than general purpose. No compute thresholds, foundation models, or open-source considerations are mentioned.