Industry and consumer groups continue pushing for changes to Colorado’s AI law as Gov. Jared Polis (D) considers the possibility of calling a special session and reconsideration of a legislative update that failed earlier this month (see 2505060033).
Louisiana’s Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday passed HB-570, an app store age-verification bill that has pitted Apple and Google against Meta and X (see 2505280065).
An app store age-verification bill under consideration in Louisiana drew heated discussion from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
It’s unclear whether a proposed 10-year moratorium on AI regulation will survive parliamentary procedure in the Senate, and predictions vary based on political party and business interests.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Donald Trump’s recent board firings suggests FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya shouldn’t be reinstated, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and the Trump administration said in a filing Friday (see 2505060040).
State attorneys general last week made unfounded claims against House Republicans’ proposed AI moratorium, Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., told us Tuesday. The moratorium doesn’t block states from enforcing traditional consumer protection laws, he added.
President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were illegal based on congressional intent and the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Wednesday (see 2502250052).
Congress should reject a “destructive” proposal that would block states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years, a bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general said in a letter to congressional leaders Friday (see 2505150021 and 2505140059).
During a 26-hour markup Tuesday, the House Commerce Committee approved reconciliation language that would set a 10-year moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505130069). Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Wednesday that discussions are ongoing in the upper chamber about moratorium language.
Members of a bipartisan multistate AI policy working group are preparing an open letter opposing a U.S. House proposal that sets a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505120067), Maryland Sen. Katie Fry Hester (D) told us Tuesday. Virginia Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D), another working group member who has helped spearhead AI legislative efforts in her state, told us the House proposal appears to be part of a concerted industry effort to kill forward momentum on state AI bills. Meanwhile, senators we spoke to on Capitol Hill split largely on party lines about the plan Tuesday.