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H.R. 7449: Digital Civil and Human Rights Act of 2022

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H.R. 7449: Digital Civil and Human Rights Act of 2022

117th Congress · introduced 2022-04-07 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2022-04-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Digital Civil and Human Rights Act of 2022

Plain summary

Digital Civil and Human Rights Act of 2022 This bill establishes prohibitions on the use of automated systems in a discriminatory manner. Specifically, the bill prohibits (1) a federal agency, U.S. court, or state, local, or tribal government from using any automated decision system that has a disparate impact on the basis of race, national origin, color, religion, disability, or sex; or (2) the use of automated systems with bias by the Department of Defense. Each federal agency must maintain on its public website a bias data sheet for each automated decision system used by such agency with the potential for a disparate impact on such bases. The bill prohibits a respondent, in connection with the selection or referral of applicants or candidates for employment or promotion, from using any automated decision system that has a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The bill prohibits places of public accommodation from using in their operations that affect commerce any decision system that has a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The bill requires (1) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a report on the use within the intelligence community of automated decision systems with an adverse distinction based on race, religion, sex, health, age, or any other similar criteria; and (2) the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop, publish, and maintain standards for reporting bias in an automated decision system.

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Official text

Digital Civil and Human Rights Act of 2022

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] · 2 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr7449 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117