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

The provision is included in a section of the massive bill related to modernizing government systems with the help of AI.

The bill contains the president’s tax cuts and spending priorities. It passed the House with a one-vote margin last week.

The bill is now headed to the Senate, where Common Sense Media hopes to see the moratorium on state-level AI regulations stripped.

Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer said Thursday that the AI provision is “irresponsible and completely indefensible."

He said it infringes on state rights.

And he said it should be removed from the bill, if for no other reason than it is not a budget matter.

But ultimately, he wants to see it removed from the bill to protect kids from potentially dangerous AI-generated content, including sexualized deepfakes.

“You have to remember that Congress has been missing in action for 25 years in this area,” Steyer said during a media briefing. “They've passed no important bills regulating the tech industry since the late 1990s."

Congress recently passed the "Take It Down Act,” which was championed by first lady Melania Trump and signed into law by her husband May 19.

The "Take It Down Act" criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual sexual imagery, including AI-generated deepfakes.

Steyer said his organization supported that bill, but he called it a “drop in the bucket compared to the bigger issues involved in this discussion.”

“But having said it, that's a good sign,” Steyer continued. “But do we have faith in Congress? We do not. And we really have faith in the states and in the American people.”

Trump wants the U.S. to be the dominant power in AI development, signing executive orders intended to break down barriers to innovation and foster AI education.

But with a lack of federal guardrails, states have stepped in with their own patchwork of regulations.

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Nearly all states have introduced legislation on the topic this year, while 26 states adopted or enacted more than 75 new measures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Common Sense Media and Echelon Insights surveyed Americans on AI regulation and the provision included in the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill."

Almost 60% of people opposed the provision that would ban states from regulating AI over the next 10 years.

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.

Echelon Insights partner and co-founder Kristen Soltis Anderson said the bipartisan support for state-level AI regulations that protect kids was remarkable, given the polarized environment.

“I do not often see survey data where right and left look very similar when you look at the data under the hood. But in this survey, the lack of partisan divide, the bipartisanship around the results was very, very striking,” she said.