Overview

• The Senate parliamentarian ruled the 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation satisfies reconciliation rules by tying it to Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment funding.
• Sens. Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn plan to introduce amendments on the Senate floor to remove the AI provision.
• Republican opponents including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron Johnson have vowed to block the bill if the state AI ban remains in place.
• Major technology firms have endorsed the moratorium, while AI leaders such as Dario Amodei have labeled it an overly blunt instrument.
• Failure to reconcile the AI provision with sufficient GOP support could jeopardize the bill’s passage when it returns to the House.