As the U.S. Senate disbanded from its 24-hour “vote-a-rama” debating amendments to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” earlier today, one major provision that would have impacted the regulation of artificial intelligence has been scrapped. The AI modernization provision of the original version of the bill would have banned state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years if they wanted access to funds aimed at improving AI infrastructure. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) initially joined a compromise amendment with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would have narrowed the scope of the provision and lowered the moratorium to five years, but later withdrew her support for that amendment and introduced her proposal to strike the provision in its entirety along with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), which passed by a vote of 99-1.

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