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Colorado special session 2025: Updates from the Capitol [1]
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Date: 2025-08-25
Pair of artificial intelligence bills pass on first votes
Both bills on artificial intelligence gained preliminary approval in the Colorado Legislature on Sunday evening.
House Bill 25B-1008 and Senate Bill 25-4 passed on a voice vote. The real test will be when the bills are up for final, recorded votes.
They are both in their first chambers, despite most other bills considered this session nearing the governor’s desk.
After it was amended, HB25B-1008 became a clean delay of the effective date for the state’s AI regulations to October of next year.
Senate Bill 25-4 was a pared-down version of 2024 legislation that seeks to prevent discrimination at the hands of AI. It eliminated some requirements the tech industry found arduous, such as risk assessments, and retained the transparency piece.
“It took the core values of what was in (the 2024 bill) and reduced it down to just the core thing, that the developer has to give (deployers) the information to know how the system is trained and use, and to be also be able to have the deployer give the information to the consumer when a decisions is being made about them (using AI),” Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, a Denver Democrat, said.
It would relate to decisions regarding health care, education, finance and government services.
Rodriguez pushed the start date for the bill from next February to next May in committee earlier on Sunday.
He further amended the bill on the Senate floor. The bill now lets deployers tell affected people a general description of the information a system used to make a decisions, rather than a list of 20 specific personal characteristics, and allows the person to request that information within 90 days. Another amendment reduced the expected appropriation by about $275,000.
An amendment originally considered liability, but Rodriguez removed it later on so all stakeholders can look at and agree to the framework.
That amendment clarified when liability for harm is placed on the developer, the entity that actually created the AI system, versus the deployer, the company or group that uses the AI to make decisions.
“If you a buy a system or utilize one to make decisions…and you don’t change it, the business doesn’t get sued. If (the developer’s) system was wrong, it requires them to take some liability,” he said. “It’s a good thing for Colorado businesses and consumers, because they buy these things not knowing how it works. Any time we’re trying to open the transparency and knowledge of these systems, it promotes more trust.”
Lawmakers will reconvene on Monday for the fifth day of the special session.
Editor’s note: This post was updated at 10:25 p.m. on Aug. 24 to reflect that the liability amendment was passed, but then rescinded later on in the evening.
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