Overview

• The provision bars states from enforcing existing or future AI regulations for a decade in order to access a $500 million AI infrastructure fund
• Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the moratorium complies with reconciliation rules by limiting its conditions to the new $500 million allocation
• Republican senators Marsha Blackburn, Josh Hawley and Ron Johnson have vowed to offer floor amendments aimed at stripping or modifying the moratorium
• Democrats, state leaders and groups like Common Sense Media warn the measure could undermine consumer safeguards and threaten up to $42 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment grants
• The moratorium’s fate will be determined during the Senate debate, where amendments and a final reconciliation vote are expected ahead of the bill reaching the president