{"id":226934,"date":"2026-06-05T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws-meritalk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:10:19","slug":"house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws-meritalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws-meritalk\/","title":{"rendered":"House Lawmakers Unveil AI Draft That Would Preempt Some State Laws \u2013 MeriTalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws\/\">House Lawmakers Unveil AI Draft That Would Preempt Some State Laws \u2013 MeriTalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws\/\">https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 15:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.meritalk.com\">www.meritalk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bipartisan AI Act Draft<\/strong>: A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers, Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), released a discussion draft of the Great American AI Act on June 4.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Purpose and Intent<\/strong>: The proposal aims to establish a federal framework for governing artificial intelligence (AI) and preempts some state AI laws, balancing innovation and managing emerging risks from AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Provisions and Structure<\/strong>: The draft includes provisions for frontier AI systems, whistleblower protections, AI-enabled fraud, workforce development, standards development, and codification of the Commerce Department\u2019s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) with specific authorization for funding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>State Preemption<\/strong>: The draft bills aims to create a national standard for AI model development while preemption may restrict state governments&#8217; powers to regulate AI, causing opposition from certain non-profit organizations and unions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Feedback and Formal Introduction<\/strong>: The lawmakers have called for feedback from various sectors before introducing a formal version of the legislation, with no specified timeline for this formal introduction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Lawmakers Unveil AI Draft That Would Preempt Some State Laws \u2013 MeriTalk https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/house-lawmakers-unveil-ai-draft-that-would-preempt-some-state-laws\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/shutterstock_2195955009-e1719427767531.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-226934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226936,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226934\/revisions\/226936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}