CO HB1468: Artificial Intelligence & Biometric Technologies

In one paragraph

Colorado's HB 24-1468 repealed and reenacted the facial recognition task force created by SB 22-113 as the Artificial Intelligence Impact Task Force. Membership grew from 15 to 26, and the focus widened from government use of facial recognition to protections for consumers and workers from AI and automated decision systems: definitions, transparency and disclosure rules, algorithmic discrimination, best practices and metrics, and facial recognition and biometric technology. It had to meet by September 1, 2024 and report by February 1, 2025, and is set to be repealed September 1, 2027. Signed June 6, 2024 (Chapter 467); effective on signature.

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What it means for business

No duties for businesses, except that employers of task force members may not retaliate against them for serving. Developer, deployer and business representatives sit on the advisory task force, which is set to be repealed September 1, 2027.

Key provisions

1. 1Repeals and reenacts C.R.S. 2-3-1707: the Task Force for the Consideration of Facial Recognition Services (SB 22-113) becomes the Artificial Intelligence Impact Task Force, which considers issues and proposes recommendations on protecting consumers and workers from AI systems and automated decision systems; the section is still repealed effective September 1, 2027, after sunset review under 2-3-1203, whose list is renamed to match
2. 226 members (formerly 15): the Attorney General and the state Chief Information Officer (or designees); four legislators named by the Speaker, the Senate President and the two minority leaders; and appointees of the Governor and legislative leaders representing groups including civil rights, civil liberties, labor, disability, privacy, consumer and education advocates, law enforcement, business and small business, AI developers and deployers, and academia, plus experts in AI bias evaluation, health-care technology, security technology and financial technology
3. 3Initial appointments, a chair (named by the Senate President) and a vice-chair (named by the Speaker) were due before August 1, 2024; the first meeting by September 1, 2024; at least five meetings with virtual participation
4. 4Topics: definitions of AI and automated decision systems; notice, explanation and disclosure requirements for companies that develop or deploy them; protecting disproportionately impacted communities and workers from algorithmic discrimination; codes of conduct, benchmarks and metrics; monitoring and verifying developer and deployer claims; data practices; state expertise; developer and deployer commitments; and facial recognition and biometric technology
5. 5Report of findings and policy recommendations to the Joint Technology Committee and the Governor's office due February 1, 2025, replacing SB 22-113's annual October 1 reports; meeting summaries, draft policy recommendations and the final report must be posted on the committee's website, and the task force must continue to meet as necessary, as it determines, until its scheduled sunset review
6. 6An employer of a task force member may not discriminate, take adverse action or retaliate against a worker for serving on the task force, including for raising reasonable workplace health or safety concerns
7. 7Replaces the definition of "artificial intelligence" (now also "artificial intelligence system") in the Joint Technology Committee statute (2-3-1701) with: any machine-based system that, for any explicit or implicit objective, infers from its inputs how to generate outputs (content, decisions, predictions or recommendations) that can influence physical or virtual environments
8. 8Signed by the Governor June 6, 2024 (Chapter 467, Session Laws of Colorado 2024); effective on signature (safety clause)

Latest legislative action

Jun 6, 2024. Governor Signed

Sponsors (showing 5 of 14)

Roll call votes (showing 3 of 9)

Amendments (7)

• House Business Affairs & Labor Amendment L.006 Adopted 2024-05-01
• Second Reading Amendment L.008 Adopted 2024-05-02
• Second Reading Amendment L.009 Adopted 2024-05-02
• Second Reading Amendment L.010 Adopted 2024-05-02
• Third Reading Amendment L.011 Adopted 2024-05-05
• Second Reading Amendment L.013 Adopted 2024-05-07
• Third Reading Amendment L.014 Adopted 2024-05-08