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  "title": "Colorado’s 2025 special session delayed its AI Act before a 2026 rewrite",
  "summary": "Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB25B-004 on August 28, 2025, extending the prior AI Act’s requirements to June 30, 2026 before a later 2026 replacement law.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Rangoon Editorial",
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  "topic": {
    "slug": "governance",
    "label": "Governance",
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  "tags": [
    {
      "slug": "us-policy",
      "label": "US policy",
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      "slug": "ai-governance",
      "label": "AI governance",
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    {
      "slug": "colorado",
      "label": "Colorado",
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  "dates": {
    "published": "2026-10-23",
    "updated": "2026-10-23",
    "event": "2025-08-28"
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  "retrospective": true,
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  "takeaways": [
    "SB25B-004 was signed August 28, 2025, effective November 25, and changed the predecessor Act’s requirement date to June 30, 2026.",
    "The special-session event was a statutory delay and restructuring step, not proof that a later Colorado framework had already taken effect.",
    "Colorado’s 2026 SB26-189 later repealed and reenacted the predecessor provisions, so historical dates need version-specific labels."
  ],
  "source_note": "Historical reporting: Colorado’s official SB25B-004 record shows Governor Polis approved the special-session Act on August 28, 2025; it became effective November 25, 2025 and extended SB24-205 requirements to June 30, 2026. SB26-189, signed May 14, 2026, is later context and is treated separately. This is not legal advice.",
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    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "Colorado General Assembly: SB25B-004 enacted record",
      "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25B-004",
      "published": "2025-08-28"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "title": "Colorado General Assembly: SB25B-004 signed Act",
      "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/90530/download",
      "published": "2025-08-28"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "title": "Colorado General Assembly: SB26-189 enacted record",
      "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-189",
      "published": "2026-05-14"
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    "alt": "Original policy review diagram: Colorado AI law version timeline. Concepts: SB24-205, August signing, November effect, June 2026 date, SB26-189, January 2027, System version. Editorial checklist, not vendor test results or an official legal determination.",
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    "caption": "Colorado AI law version timeline. Original Rangoon explanatory diagram: concepts for editorial review, not measured results, an official legal determination, vendor interface or event photograph.",
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    {
      "id": "special-session-act",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-colorado-ai-act-delay-special-session-2025/#special-session-act",
      "heading": "The special-session bill had a signature date and a later effective date",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Colorado’s official record identifies SB25B-004 as a 2025 Extraordinary Session bill concerning transparency for algorithmic systems. It records approval by Governor Polis on August 28, 2025 and an effective date of November 25, 2025. Its enacted summary says the measure extended the requirements of 2024 Senate Bill 24-205 to June 30, 2026. Those three dates serve different jobs: signing creates the event record, effectiveness controls the 2025 Act, and June 30 is the delayed date for the predecessor requirements."
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      "id": "what-the-delay-meant",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-colorado-ai-act-delay-special-session-2025/#what-the-delay-meant",
      "heading": "A delay does not freeze every product question",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The 2024 law had created consumer protections related to AI systems, and SB25B-004’s enacted summary describes an extension of those requirements. That does not mean a team can classify a system from a single model label or assume that every planned feature faces the same treatment. Technical scope still depends on the decision supported, the role of the developer or deployer, the data path, and the timing of a release. A reliable historical ledger should therefore identify the bill version and date before connecting an engineering milestone to a statutory calendar."
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    {
      "id": "release-planning",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-colorado-ai-act-delay-special-session-2025/#release-planning",
      "heading": "Versioned release planning needs more than a deadline field",
      "paragraphs": [
        "When a legal timeline shifts, product planning must separate code already in service from a candidate release, a model update, and a change to a decision workflow. That makes it possible to test a particular version against the facts it uses: prediction inputs, ranking logic, human-review handoff, user notice, and adverse-outcome path. The practical artifact is a versioned system description with a dated test run, not a generic assertion that a product is transparent. Such an artifact can support informed review while leaving legal interpretation to the appropriate authority.",
        "A focused regression test can compare the same input through an old and candidate decision path, then identify whether the difference came from data, scoring logic, a threshold, or a human override. It should preserve the reason code delivered to the product layer, rather than only a final rank or binary outcome. That produces evidence that can be inspected when a date or statutory version changes."
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      "id": "later-2026-context",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-colorado-ai-act-delay-special-session-2025/#later-2026-context",
      "heading": "The 2026 replacement is later context, not evidence about August 2025",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Colorado later signed SB26-189 on May 14, 2026. Its official enacted summary says it repealed and reenacted the earlier provisions with a new automated-decision-making framework and January 1, 2027 starting requirements for covered technology. That later Act means the August 2025 delay cannot be read as the final description of Colorado law after May 2026. This story preserves the special-session event and labels the later change separately; it does not decide whether a specific system falls inside the 2026 framework.",
        "A historical policy page should therefore place the later Act beside the earlier event with a clearly labeled change boundary. It should not overwrite the 2025 record, because a reader then loses the reason the June 2026 date appeared in contemporaneous plans. Nor should it reuse the 2025 delay as a substitute for evaluating the 2026 terms against a current product."
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