1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act of 2024 . 2. Computational forensic algorithm testing 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 testing computational forensic software, to be known as the Computational Forensic Algorithm Testing Standards, consistent with the following: (1) Testing standards shall include an assessment for the potential for disparate impact, on the basis of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and other demographic features. (2) Testing standards shall address— (A) the underlying scientific principles and methods implemented in computational forensic software; and (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; (v) sensitivity; and (vi) system failure rates; (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 data used to develop the tool, and internal testing methodology and results, including source and description of testing data; (D) requirements for laboratories and any other entities using computational forensic software to validate it for use, including to specify the conditions under which the lab has validated it for their use, requirements for what information needs to be included in a public report on the lab or other entity’s validation, and requirements for internal validation updates when there are material changes to the software