HR 10362
To provide for certain artificial intelligence agent discovery and security standards, and for other purposes.
TL;DR
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced this federal bill to create discovery and security standards for AI agents, the autonomous software tools that can take actions online on behalf of users or companies. It aims to establish rules for identifying AI agents and securing how they operate, though specific technical requirements would be developed by federal agencies.
How This Might Impact Your Business
Companies deploying autonomous AI agents (chatbots, browsing agents, procurement bots, customer service AI) would face new federal standards for how those agents identify themselves and authenticate their actions.
Software vendors building AI agent platforms (think OpenAI Operator, Anthropic Computer Use, Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio) would likely need to adopt discovery protocols so third parties can verify agent identity.
Websites and online services receiving traffic from AI agents may gain tools to detect and manage that traffic, affecting e-commerce, publishing, and SaaS platforms currently struggling with bot activity.
Financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries using AI agents for transactions would need to build audit trails proving which agent performed which action.
No compliance deadline yet: the bill sits in committee and would authorize agencies to write specific standards later, meaning 18 to 36 months before rules take effect if passed.
No penalty structure or enforcement mechanism is specified in the current draft, so financial exposure remains unclear.
The bill covers federal systems and standards development, with private sector obligations flowing indirectly through procurement and interoperability requirements.
What Should You Do
Ask your CTO or head of engineering to inventory every AI agent your company deploys or embeds, including third-party tools like Copilot, Gemini, and agentic features in your SaaS stack.
Direct your security team to review how AI agents authenticate themselves when acting on your systems and whether you can currently distinguish agent traffic from human users.
Have legal and compliance teams start drafting an internal AI agent governance policy covering identification, logging, and accountability, since federal standards will likely mirror emerging NIST frameworks.
Assign a government affairs contact to monitor House Science and Oversight committee activity on this bill and track parallel NIST work on AI agent standards.
If you sell to federal agencies, brief your public sector sales team, since federal procurement will likely be the first place these standards become mandatory.
Who It Affects
Sponsors
Status Timeline
committee
Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
September 14, 2026