Colorado repeals and replaces its AI Act with SB 26-189, effective 1 January 2027
Concerns Colorado ADMT law (SB 26-189)
What changed?
The Governor signed SB 26-189, which repeals and re-enacts the Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205) before its delayed 30 June 2026 effective date. The replacement law narrows the scope to automated decision-making technology that materially influences consequential decisions, drops the duty of care, impact assessments, the risk-management programme and Attorney General notification, and adds advance notice, adverse-decision disclosure, meaningful human review, three-year record keeping and developer documentation duties. Recorded from secondary reporting; confirm against the enrolled bill.
What does it mean in practice?
Stop building to the SB 24-205 impact-assessment and risk-programme requirements; plan notice, adverse-decision disclosure, human review, record keeping and developer documentation for consequential decisions from 1 January 2027.
Official source
SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making TechnologyColorado General Assembly · 14 May 2026
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Colorado repeals and replaces its AI Act with SB 26-189, effective 1 January 2027”. https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-05-14-colorado-sb26-189-repeals-and-replaces-ai-act (accessed 27 September 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
Cite the official text alongside it: SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making Technology, Colorado General Assembly, https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189.
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