# Colorado repeals and replaces its AI Act with SB 26-189, effective 1 January 2027

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-05-14
- **Jurisdiction**: Colorado (United States)
- **Instrument**: Colorado Senate Bill 26-189: Automated Decision-Making Technology (replacement of the Colorado AI Act)
- **Impact level**: Urgent
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## 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 it means 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.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-05-14-colorado-sb26-189-repeals-and-replaces-ai-act
- **Official source**: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189
- **Source document**: SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making Technology
- **Published by**: Colorado General Assembly
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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