The public record · 119th Congress

BLADE Act

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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.Official Title as Introduced

BLADE ActShort Title(s) as Introduced

Blocking Large-scale Adversarial Distillation Efforts Act of 2026Short Title(s) as Introduced

Legislative history

S. 5252·Senate·Bill·Foreign Trade and International Finance

Sen. Bill Hagerty(Republican-Tennessee)·

Aug 5, 2026

SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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Bill text

Aug 5, 2026As introduced in the Senate