Senate adopts limits on conversational AI use in state-facing services

Jun 11, 2026

In an additional committee session the Senate adopted a floor amendment to House Bill 23-11 that bars conversational-AI operators from conditioning access on age-verification digital IDs unless federally required and prohibits use of the requirements to create social scoring systems.

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The Senate’s additional Committee of the Whole considered House Bill 23-11 (information technology / conversational AI) and adopted a Farnsworth floor amendment that added user-protection language. The amendment prohibits operators from conditioning access to conversational AI services on the use of an age-verification digital ID except where federal law requires it, and it bars using those requirements as a pretext to build tracking systems or social scoring systems.

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