Key Takeaways Representative April McClain Delaney co-led the GUARDRAILS Act in March 2026, a bill designed to repeal a December 2025 Trump executive order that sought to impose a moratorium on state-level AI regulation. The GUARDRAILS Act directly challenges the federal administration’s push for consolidated AI regulatory authority, representing a legislative effort to restore states’ ability to establish their own AI safeguards. The debate over federal versus state control in AI governance is intensifying — with the prospect of fragmented, state-by-state regulation raising real compliance challenges for AI developers and deployers operating nationally. A bill introduced in Congress last month could determine whether American states retain the power to regulate artificial intelligence — or whether that authority belongs exclusively to Washington.…