1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act of 2019 . 2. Computational Forensic Algorithm Standards (a) In general Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall establish a program to provide for creation and maintenance of standards for the development and use of computational forensic software, to be known as the Computational Forensic Algorithm Standards, consistent with the following: (1) Standards shall include an assessment for the potential for disparate impact, on the basis of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and other demographic features, in the development and use of the computational forensic software. (2) Standards shall address— (A) (i) the underlying scientific principles and methods implemented in computational forensic software; and (ii) if, in the case of a particular method, there are insufficient studies supporting its use, what studies the Director has conducted to do so, and the results of such studies; (B) requirements for testing the software including the conditions under which it needs to be tested, types of testing data to be used, testing environments, testing methodologies, and system performance statistics required to be reported including— (i) accuracy, including false positive and false negative error rates; (ii) precision; (iii) reproducibility; (iv) robustness; and (v) sensitivity; (C) requirements for publicly available documentation by developers of computational forensic software of the purpose and function of the software, the development process, including source and description of training data, and internal testing methodology and results, including source and description of testing data