HB26-1263 · Bill · 2026 Regular Session · Colorado

Conversational Artificial Intelligence Service Operator Requirements

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Concerning requirements for an operator of a conversational artificial intelligence service.

Official status: Became Law

21 proposed amendments

Prime sponsors

• Sean Camacho (House) — Prime Sponsor
• Javier Mabrey (House) — Prime Sponsor
• John Carson (Senate) — Prime Sponsor
• Iman Jodeh (Senate) — Prime Sponsor

Progress (from the official record)

Official summary

Official text — shown in English exactly as published by the official source. The official text controls.

The act defines a 'conversational artificial intelligence service' as an artificial intelligence system that is accessible to the general public and that primarily simulates human conversation and interaction through adaptive textual, visual, or aural communications. Effective January 1, 2027, the act creates requirements and prohibitions for a person, partnership, corporation, or entity that develops and makes publicly available a conversational artificial intelligence service or offers a conversational artificial intelligence service to a consumer (operator). An operator is required to use commercially reasonable methods or generally accepted methods to estimate the age of a consumer who has or opens an account or profile to use a conversational artificial intelligence service (account holder) and the age of other users of a conversational artificial intelligence service. If an operator knows that an account holder or user is a minor, an operator is: Required to provide certain disclosures; Prohibited from providing the minor account holder or minor user with points or rewards to encourage engagement with the conversational artificial intelligence service; Required to institute technically feasible measures to prevent the conversational artificial intelligence service from producing explicit sexual conduct, intimate digital depictions, or statements that simulate emotional dependence; Required to implement a protocol for a conversational artificial intelligence service to stop engaging in response to a user prompt regarding sexual conduct with a minor; and Required to provide tools for the minor account holder or minor user or a parent or guardian of the minor account holder or minor user to manage the minor account holder's or minor user's privacy and account settings. The act also requires an operator to provide a disclosure to a user that a conversational artificial intelligence service is artificial intelligence, implement a protocol for user prompts regarding suicidal ideation or self-harm, and annually report to the attorney general's office information regarding the protocol the operator is implementing. The act prohibits an operator from stating that any output data provided by a conversational artificial intelligence service is provided by, endorsed by, or equivalent to services provided by certain licensed or certified professionals. The act clarifies that nothing in the act limits an individual's ability to access certain information and resources pursuant to the state constitution, requires an operator to disclose confidential information, or authorizes content moderation practices inconsistent with the United States constitution. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Status timeline

Recorded votes

• 05/05/2026 — Senate Business, Labor, & Technology: “Refer House Bill 26-1263, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.” — the motion passed on a vote of 5–0.
• 03/26/2026 — House Business Affairs & Labor: “Refer House Bill 26-1263, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.” — the motion passed on a vote of 10–3.

Proposed amendments (21 proposed amendments)

Source: Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) · Data as of 2026-11-05

Full text

• Signed Act version (official PDF), 06/01/2026
• Final Act version (official PDF), 05/28/2026
• Rerevised version (official PDF), 05/11/2026
• Revised version (official PDF), 05/08/2026
• Reengrossed version (official PDF), 04/21/2026
• Engrossed version (official PDF), 04/20/2026
• Introduced version (official PDF), 02/19/2026

Official record

View HB26-1263 on leg.colorado.gov

Source: Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) · Data as of 2026-11-05