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The Colorado AI-framework lineage
How Colorado's SB 24-205 became the template other states copied — and how its origin state is already revising it.
May 17, 2024
Colorado enacts SB 24-205, the first comprehensive state AI law
Governor Jared Polis signed SB 24-205, imposing a duty of reasonable care on developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination — the first comprehensive AI law of its kind in the United States. It was originally set to take effect February 1, 2026.
2024
Connecticut advances a closely aligned SB 2
Connecticut's SB 2, developed through a multistate legislators' working group alongside Colorado's sponsors, mirrored the same risk-based framework. It passed the Connecticut Senate but was not taken up by the House before the 2024 session adjourned — the template spreading even where it did not yet become law.
March 24, 2025
Virginia passes HB 2094 — then vetoes it
Virginia's High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act, modeled on the Colorado approach, cleared the General Assembly before Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed it on March 24, 2025 — evidence of both the diffusion of the framework and the resistance it drew.
June 2025
Texas takes a narrower path with TRAIGA (HB 149)
The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act was signed into law as part of the same 2024–2025 wave of state AI governance, but on a narrower path than Colorado — centering on prohibited AI uses and government deployments rather than a broad private-sector duty of care.
May 14, 2026
Colorado narrows its own law with SB 26-189
Colorado repealed and reenacted its 2024 Act, paring the risk-based duty of care back to disclosure duties and pushing the effective date to January 1, 2027. The origin state was already revising the template — a reminder that a tracker must show current law, not the version that first made headlines.