House Appropriations advances bill to delay Colorado AI requirements to June 30, 2026

The House Appropriations Committee on Saturday voted 8-3 to advance a strike-below version of Senate Bill 4, a measure that would postpone parts of Senate Bill 24-205’s requirements from Feb. 1, 2026, to June 30, 2026.

The committee adopted Amendment L040, which the sponsor said was needed to change the bill title and remove language referencing an appropriation, and then moved the amended bill to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation. The vote on the motion to advance the bill was recorded as eight in favor and three opposed.

Senate Bill 24-205, passed in 2024, requires certain disclosures and impact assessments when automated decision systems — commonly described as AI — are used for consequential decisions such as hiring, lending and housing. Assistant Majority Leader Bacon, a House sponsor of the strike-below, told the committee the amendment before members is “a strike below to simply extend the requirements of Senate Bill 24-205 to be implemented until June 2026.” She said sponsors sought more time to negotiate shared liability between deployers (organizations that use AI) and developers (those who create it).

Bacon also described the policy aims and negotiation history: the original law ordered disclosures to users, impact assessments of deployed systems and required developers to disclose the purpose and…