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Today, Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC) introduced bipartisan legislation to protect children from AI companion chatbots. The Guidelines for User Age Verification and Responsible Dialogue (GUARD) Act bans AI companion chatbots for minors, requires AI chatbots to disclose their non-human status to users of the platform, and establishes new criminal penalties for companies that allow minors to access AI companions that solicit or produce sexual content. Companion leg…  Continue Reading

The House of Representatives unanimously passed the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act, which included Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT) and Vince Fong's (R-CA) Doug LaMalfa Protect Innocent Victims of Taxation After Fire Extension Act. Re-introduced in memory of the late California Representative Doug LaMalfa, this bill exempts wildfire relief payments made to victims from federal income tax. Other original co-sponsors include Representatives Tom McClintock (R-CA), Brad Sh…  Continue Reading

Today, Congressman Blake Moore’s Counterfeit Notification Act passed the House of Representatives. Introduced with Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL), this legislation halts counterfeit and pirated imports into the United States. The bill changes how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can share the packing and shipping information of suspected counterfeit products with key intellectual property rights holders, transportation carriers, and e-commerce platforms. This bill passed the Ways and Mean…  Continue Reading