The Guam Legislature advanced a bill to create an artificial intelligence regulatory task force, adopting a series of floor amendments to expand the panel's duties and add procedural safeguards on bias, transparency and oversight.

Sponsor remarks described Bill 64-38 COR as a multi-sector effort to guide ethical, transparent, accountable AI use across government and to prepare the territory for AI's impacts on education, public safety and the economy. Floor amendments adopted without objection broadened the task force's duties to include review of territorial and federal grants related to AI and cybersecurity; clarified administrative support and added a supplemental $25,000 administrative contribution from the Guam Economic Development Authority (GEDA); and added the GEDA administrator (or designee) as a voting member of the task force.

Members also accepted amendments that strengthened protections against discriminatory outcomes and algorithmic bias, including enumerated sectors (insurance, finance, employment, housing, health care and other critical sectors) and protected characteristics. The legislature adopted language requiring standards for transparency, auditability, regular testing and public reporting to detect and prevent inequitable impacts. Another amendment required the task force to create mechanisms for oversight, compliance and enforcement, including avenues for individuals adversely affected by AI-driven decisions to seek meaningful human review, due process and redress.

Sponsor (Speaker 7) framed the bill as a timely step to ensure the territory's policies keep pace with AI adoption: "This bill establishes the Guam artificial intelligence regulatory task force to guide how AI is used on our island ethically, transparently and responsibly," the sponsor said on the floor.

Multiple senators voiced support, including representatives of the judiciary and homeland security in their committee testimony who warned that algorithmic bias and opaque decision-making could undermine fairness in justice systems and critical infrastructure. Several senators thanked GEDA for its supplemental offer of $25,000 to help with administrative functions and for agreeing to provide administrative clerical support.

With no objections on the floor amendments, the body ordered Bill 64-38 COR as amended placed on the third-reading voting file for the next stage of consideration.

Next steps: The bill, now amended on the floor, will be scheduled for third reading and a formal vote. The task force is required by the bill to report quarterly to the legislature and the public per the adopted language.