Ctrl+AI+Reg - 23 June 2025

Jun 23, 2025

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🇺🇸 [22 June 2025] Senate parliamentarian approves state AI law moratorium in Budget Reconciliation Bill: It is reported that the The Senate’s parliamentarian (i.e. rules referee) has approved allowed the Republicans to include in the Budget Reconciliation Bill a 10-year moratorium on enforcing state and local AI laws. For background, Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) rewrote a House-passed AI moratorium to try to comply with the chamber’s budgetary rules. Senator Cruz's version tied compliance with the moratorium to eligibility for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program funding—a $42 billion federal broadband investment. Both parties made their arguments before the parliamentarian on 19 June. On 21 June, the Senate Parliamentarian determined that the proposed moratorium survived procedural scrutiny — known as the Byrd Rule — and will remain in the bill. This ruling effectively shields the moratorium provision from a filibuster hurdle and allows it to advance through the budget reconciliation process with a simple majority vote. The path forward for the AI moratorium is now procedurally clear, pending broader negotiations over the bill’s contents.

🇰🇷 [20 June 2025] Special Law for the Promotion of the Artificial Intelligence Industry introduced: The Special Law for the Promotion of the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Bill No. 2210957) has been submitted to the 22nd National Assembly. The Bill aims to support the AI industry to secure AI sovereignty, strengthen national competitiveness, and contribute to national economic development. Key features include: (1) several measures to promote and support the industry, such as establishing a basis for strategic planning to enhance AI industry competitiveness, designating and supporting the creation and operation of AI mega clusters, and promoting and verifying new AI research projects; (2) special provisions regarding the dissemination of research and development results, strategic AI projects, implementation of pilot projects, and the establishment of corporate joint research institutes; (3) groundwork for fostering industry personnel, including attracting overseas talent, surveying supply and demand trends, securing regional personnel, and promoting youth talent development through training programmes and information cooperation; and (4) grounds for financial support, such as expanding AI infrastructure, designating and supporting AI data centre special zones, special provisions regarding preliminary feasibility studies, establishing an AI industry promotion special account, tax provisions, and employment subsidies.

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