House GOP Inserts 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulation

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 7:20 pm

Lawmakers have quietly embedded a controversial provision within a massive budget reconciliation bill that would preclude states from regulating AI for a decade. The move, cloaked in legislative maneuvering, is raising eyebrows as critics point to its potential to block vital safeguards.

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Buried in the House GOP’s massive budget reconciliation bill is a seemingly simple provision about AI regulation. The idea appears straightforward enough: stop states from regulating AI companies for the next decade. To do this, they quietly added language preventing states from regulating…

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Republicans want to stop states from regulating AI. On Sunday, a Republican-led House committee submitted a budget reconciliation bill that proposes blocking states from enforcing “any law or regulation” targeting an exceptionally broad range of automated computing systems for 10 years after the…

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