States' Right to Regulate AI Act
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill prohibits federal funds from being used to carry out Executive Order 14305, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, issued on December 11, 2025.
Who Benefits and How
States that want to regulate artificial intelligence without federal executive-branch interference would benefit because the bill blocks spending on implementing that executive order.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal agencies that would otherwise carry out the executive order would lose authority and funding support for that work.
Key Provisions
- Bars federal funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the December 11, 2025 AI executive order.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Block the use of federal funds to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 14305 on a national framework for state regulation of artificial intelligence.
Key Policy Areas
Technology, Federalism
Primary Purpose
Block the use of federal funds to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 14305 on a national framework for state regulation of artificial intelligence.
Policy Domains
Federal Funding Bar on AI Executive Order
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- States regulating artificial intelligence
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal agencies implementing the AI executive order
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Welch, Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_agencies"
- → Executive branch agencies implementing the AI executive order
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