Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough announced on June 21 that the Republican-backed measure to put a temporary block on states’ regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) can remain in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
This means that the bill’s proposal to restrain state AI laws for 10 years can be part of Congress’s reconciliation process and could be passed with a simple majority.
Under the proposal, states that want access to federal funding from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program would be prohibited from regulating AI at a state level till 2035.
Should the measure pass, states that adhere to the nonregulation policy would have access to a portion of the $500 million headed to the Department of Commerce for the modernization and security of information technology systems….