Policy & legislationOriginal cosponsor verified; introduced bill referred to committee
States’ Right to Regulate AI Act: funding restriction for a federal order
Period or event: Introduced December 17, 2025; status rechecked September 12, 2026 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record policy-r4-state-ai-authority-2025
Sanders was an original cosponsor of S.3557. The bill would bar federal funds from implementing, administering or enforcing the December 11, 2025 executive order titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.
What the source records
Bill
S.3557, 119th Congress
Official title
States' Right to Regulate AI Act
Sponsor
Edward Markey
Sanders role
Original cosponsor on December 17, 2025Official bioguide ID S000033, I-VT.
Proposed mechanism
No federal funds for implementation, administration or enforcement of the specified December 11 executive orderSection 2. This is an appropriations restriction directed at the order.
Latest action in acquired status
December 17, 2025: read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Scope & limitations
Already listed in the published legislative inventory; this record adds reviewed statutory detail to the curated policy collection, not a newly discovered filing.
Cosponsorship is a legislative relationship, not a recorded floor vote or proof of who wrote the text.
This is a separate bill from the July 1, 2025 reconciliation amendment already covered in the ledger.
The short text does not itself create an across-the-board federal AI-development ban, repeal the executive order, or enact every existing state AI law.
No enactment or floor vote is recorded in the acquired status.