Republicans on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee proposed an alternative to a controversial part of President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" that would curb state regulatory authorities over artificial intelligence.

In the House-passed version of the "big beautiful bill," there was a 10-year ban on individual states passing laws to regulate AI models and systems. 

That generated pushback from two GOP senators and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., according to The Hill.

The Senate updated the GOP's version of the bill to declare that states can't regulate AI if they want federal broadband funding.

"These provisions fulfill the mandate given to President Trump and Congressional Republicans by the voters: to unleash America’s full economic potential and keep her safe from enemies,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Thursday regarding the changes, according to The Associated Press.

Some Republicans have expressed concerns that this law would trample states' rights over AI.

“We don’t get the full bill text until very close to the time to vote for it, and so that was one section that was two pages that I didn’t see,” Greene said in an interview with NewsNation. “I find it so problematic that I’m willing to come forward and admit there are two pages that I didn’t read, because I never want to see a situation where state rights are stripped away."