(TNND) — Common Sense Media, an organization that advocates for online protections for children and teens, is worried that a provision in President Donald Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" would stop states from enforcing artificial intelligence safeguards for the next decade.

The massive bill containing the president’s tax cuts and spending priorities passed the House last month. Senate Republicans are now working on their version with hopes of getting it to Trump’s desk soon.

Provisions on state-level AI regulations have made both the House and Senate versions of the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill."

And the provision made it past the Senate parliamentarian.

Danny Weiss, the chief advocacy officer for Common Sense Media, said his group is now concerned that the provision has a greater than 50-50 shot at becoming law.

The House version didn’t include stipulations on prohibiting states from enforcing their AI regulations, Weiss said.

The Senate version makes the pause on state AI regulations voluntary.

But it also makes federal broadband funding conditional on states certifying that they’re not enforcing their AI laws.

States that enforce their AI regulations would jeopardize billions in federal broadband funding, Weiss said.

“Preventing states from regulating AI has nothing to do with the budget. Shouldn't be in a budget bill,” Weiss said. “The clever move that (Senate Commerce Committee) Chairman (Ted) Cruz made was to tie it to what he says is a small pot of money related to broadband. But our concern is that it's really not just tied to a small pot of money. It's tied to $42 billion worth of broadband infrastructure money that states have been spending the last several years, planning for, and is now at risk if they don't adhere to the AI-law enforcement ban.”

Cruz says the provision to prevent states from enforcing AI regulations is included in the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" in the name of innovation.

And the committee says the country “should take steps to prevent an unworkable patchwork of disparate and conflicting state AI laws and to encourage states to adopt commonsense tech-neutral policies."

Weiss said the provision, effectively a ban, infringes on state rights.

And he said it leaves kids vulnerable.

“Common Sense opposes this provision because there are currently almost no protections for kids, teens, families and other consumers from the risks and harms we know are associated with artificial intelligence,” he said. “States are leading the way.”

Weiss said the state laws they’re talking about could range from required disclosures of AI-generated content to laws that try and stop AI from being used to create child sexual abuse material.

Nearly all states have introduced legislation on AI this year, while 28 states adopted or enacted more than 75 new measures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

He said Common Sense Media surveys show wide public support for state AI regulations.

Almost 60% of Americans opposed the inclusion of a federal ban on state AI regulations as part of the big budget bill.

Seven in 10 people said Congress should not prohibit states from enacting or enforcing AI and technology regulation.

Over 90%, including 95% of Republicans, said they were concerned about kids being exposed to highly sexualized AI-generated content online.

And over 80% said states shouldn’t be forced to sit on the sidelines as AI rapidly evolves

Common Sense Media said over 60,000 people signed its petition to get lawmakers to remove the provision from the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”

Weiss said they hope to see a senator introduce an amendment to remove the provision from the bill.

“For better or for worse, many people thought this provision was going to get taken out,” Weiss said. “And then Chairman Cruz rewrote the provision. And it's in the bill. And in order to take it out of the bill, you need 51 votes at this point. The majority leader could take it out himself before he brings it to the floor. And it would be our hope that he would agree with us that this is indefensible and will take it out. But I'm not counting on that. So, what I foresee is a fight on the Senate floor.”