Colorado's AI Enforcement Framework Effectively Reset — January 2027 Now the Real Deadline
Colorado's original AI Act (SB 24-205), which had been scheduled to take effect June 30, 2026, was superseded by Governor Polis's signature on SB 26-189 on May 14 — a replacement law that takes effect January 1, 2027 with a substantially narrowed scope. The original law imposed comprehensive duties on deployers of high-risk AI in consequential decisions (employment, housing, healthcare, insurance,