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Federal event index

1. 2025-05-19LEGISLATIONTAKE IT DOWN Act signed into law (S. 146, Pub. L. 119-12)ENACTED

   Criminalizes knowing disclosure of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, including AI-generated deepfakes, and requires covered platforms to remove such depictions within 48 hours of a valid request (platform duties operative May 19, 2026; FTC enforcement).

   SOURCEwhitehouse.gov(opens in new tab)
2. 2025-07-01LEGISLATIONSenate strips 10-year state AI-law moratorium from H.R. 1 ('One Big Beautiful Bill')FAILED

   After the House passed a 10-year preemption moratorium on state and local AI regulation, the Senate voted 99-1 (July 1, 2025) to strike the provision following the Blackburn-Cantwell agreement; the enacted law contains no state AI moratorium.

   SOURCEcongress.gov(opens in new tab)
3. 2025-12-11EXECUTIVE ORDERExecutive Order 14365, 'Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence'IN EFFECT

   Directs the DOJ to establish an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws (singling out Colorado's), instructs Commerce to identify 'onerous' state laws, ties certain federal funds to states' restraint from conflicting AI laws, and calls for a uniform federal framework while carving out child safety, data-center infrastructure, and state procurement.

   COCANYSOURCEwhitehouse.gov(opens in new tab)
4. 2026-01-09TASK FORCEDOJ establishes the AI Litigation Task ForceIN EFFECT

   Per EO 14365's directive, the Department of Justice stood up an AI Litigation Task Force (internal memo January 9, 2026; operational mid-January) charged with challenging state AI laws on preemption, dormant Commerce Clause, and First Amendment grounds. No standalone DOJ press release located; source is the directing executive order.

   COCANYILSOURCEwhitehouse.gov(opens in new tab)
5. 2026-03-20LEGISLATIONWhite House unveils National AI Legislative FrameworkPROPOSED

   Administration framework urging Congress to legislate on six objectives (children/parents, communities and data centers, IP and creators, free speech, innovation and AI dominance, workforce) and explicitly calling for uniform national rules over the state 'patchwork'.

   SOURCEwhitehouse.gov(opens in new tab)
6. 2026-04-09LITIGATIONxAI sues Colorado over SB 24-205 (X.AI LLC v. Weiser, No. 1:26-cv-01515, D. Colo.)ONGOING

   xAI filed a federal constitutional challenge to Colorado's AI Act (SB 24-205) alleging First Amendment and dormant Commerce Clause violations, the lead's anchor case for federal-state collision over state AI regulation. Docket detail via court reporting; the Colorado AG's AI page covers the law and its enforcement posture.

   COSOURCEcoag.gov(opens in new tab)
7. 2026-04-24LITIGATIONDOJ moves to intervene in xAI v. Weiser; court stays enforcement of Colorado's AI ActONGOING

   The Department of Justice (via the AI Litigation Task Force) moved to intervene alongside xAI on April 24, 2026; on April 27, 2026 a federal magistrate judge stayed enforcement of SB 24-205, a stay later extended to successor law SB 26-189.

   COSOURCEcoag.gov(opens in new tab)
8. 2026-04-28LEGISLATIONCHATBOT Act introduced in the U.S. SenatePROPOSED

   Bipartisan bill (Cruz, Schatz, Curtis, Schiff) would require family accounts and parental consent for minors on public-facing AI chatbot services, default-most-protective parental controls, and bans targeted ads to known children/teens; FTC and state AG enforcement. Introduced; not enacted.

   SOURCEcongress.gov(opens in new tab)

The legal effect of the December 2025 executive order on state laws is contested and unresolved. This index records what each action did, not what it achieved. Primary sources linked per event. Verified 2026-08-02.