# Notify consumers before automated decision-making technology influences a consequential decision

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Colorado Senate Bill 26-189: Automated Decision-Making Technology (replacement of the Colorado AI Act)
- **Jurisdiction**: Colorado (United States)
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-01-01

## In brief

Notify consumers before automated decision-making technology influences a consequential decision is a legal requirement under the Colorado ADMT law (SB 26-189) in Colorado (United States). Deployers must tell a consumer, before the decision is made, that automated decision-making technology will be used to make or materially influence a consequential decision about them. It applies from 1 January 2027.

## What the duty requires

Deployers must tell a consumer, before the decision is made, that automated decision-making technology will be used to make or materially influence a consequential decision about them. The exact content and timing of the notice follow the enrolled bill, which a reviewer must read.

## What an organisation does about it

Add a plain-language notice to every consumer-facing flow in which an automated tool influences a consequential decision.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure

## Parent instrument

- Colorado Senate Bill 26-189: Automated Decision-Making Technology (replacement of the Colorado AI Act)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-colorado-automated-decision-making-technology-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-colorado-automated-decision-making-technology-act.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-colorado-admt-advance-notice
- **Official source**: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189
- **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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