Colorado's AI Act replacement bill SB 189 — passed by both chambers of the Colorado legislature in May 2026 and effective 30 June 2026 — drops the original law's risk-management programme requirements and annual impact assessments in favour of a notice-and-transparency framework; operators using AI to make or materially influence a consequential decision about a Colorado resident (employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, healthcare) have active notice, disclosure, and documentation obligations from 30 June 2026 regardless of firm size.
Claim is scoped to the operator-tier compliance picture under SB 189 as passed in May 2026. 30-day review cadence calibrated to the June 30 effective date — the pre-effective-date review checks for official Colorado guidance for small operators and any enforcement signal. Trigger conditions: (1) Colorado publishes official small-business AI guidance clarifying SB 189 obligations — refines the compliance picture; (2) SB 189 is further amended or delayed before June 30 — would update claim status; (3) first enforcement action or complaint under SB 189 against a small operator — would harden the enforcement-is-real reading; (4) another state passes a comparable law with a similar near-term deadline — broadens the compliance-calendar picture.
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The claim: Colorado's AI Act replacement bill SB 189 — passed by both chambers of the Colorado legislature in May 2026 and effective 30 June 2026 — drops the original law's risk-management programme requirements and annual impact assessments in favour of a notice-and-transparency framework; operators using AI to make or materially influence a consequential decision about a Colorado resident (employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, healthcare) have active notice, disclosure, and documentation obligations from 30 June 2026 regardless of firm size.
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The Operators register tracks claims published from practitioner-advisory pieces addressed to solo founders, micro-SMB, and small businesses up to around fifty people. Claims are reviewed on a 30–45 day cadence — tooling and SMB-relevant pricing shift faster than enterprise procurement signals.
Recent corrections in Operators
- OPS-036 · Partial · 29 Apr 2026
Initial publication 29 Apr 2026. Status set to Partial at publication because clause 6 commentary references an order-of-magnitude remediation-cost gap derived from the IAPP 2024 AI Governance Profession Report; the report characterises the gap as material but does not publish a precise multiple, so the wording is annotated source: our-estimate. REVIEW: Peter to source a precise figure or amend the commentary.
- OPS-035 · Holding · 29 Apr 2026
Initial publication 29 Apr 2026. Status set to Partial at publication because category 5 lacks the same regulatory/cited-consequence anchor as categories 1-4. REVIEW: Peter to confirm category 5 evidence base and either upgrade to Holding (with strengthened citation) or amend the claim to four categories.
- OPS-034 · Holding · 29 Apr 2026
Initial publication 29 Apr 2026 with status=partial. Cost-side claims (vendor pricing) verifiable against the four cited pricing pages on the publication date. Time-recovery claim (90+ min compressed to ~20 min) drawn from published productivity-blogger benchmarks rather than Peter-run measurement; first-cohort replication on the publication's tracked operator cohort due by 13 Jun 2026. REVIEW: Peter.
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