Overview
- Virginia Delegate Michelle Maldonado says she will refile a narrowed AI anti-discrimination and transparency bill focused on health care for the 2026 session.
- Maldonado also plans roughly a dozen technology measures, including bills on chatbot safeguards and limits on using personal data to train AI systems.
- Her earlier HB 2094 passed but was vetoed in 2025, and she remains cautious about adding a broad private right of action, though she is open to targeted options such as for minors interacting with chatbots.
- In Washington, House Republican leaders are exploring pre-emption language in the NDAA, President Trump voiced support for blocking state AI laws, and allies including David Sacks and Marc Andreessen back a single federal framework.
- A reported leak of a draft executive order to curb state AI regulation drew swift pushback from figures as varied as Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Steve Bannon, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, with GOP leaders urging the White House to pause as NDAA talks continue.