Live updates: House sorts through failed AI delay aftermath, take votes as legislature starts final day

The Colorado General Assembly enters its final day of the session Wednesday after a late-night scramble in the House over artificial intelligence regulations That debacle aside lawmakers will work to finish up final votes and procedural work before adjourning by the end of the day This story will be updated throughout the day a m update And then there was one The legislature has entered its final day with much of its hardest work already done That went right up until midnight Tuesday The House first fully passed House Bill a transgender rights bill that seeks to expand antidiscrimination protections for trans Coloradans Its passage followed lengthy and heated opposition from House Republicans who accused the bill s sponsors of infringing on parental rights One Republican called the bill satanic But the end to the session s hardest work doesn t mean tension has lightened Rumors of a special session were already flying amid fear of what expected federal funding cuts will do to the state s Medicaid system in the early fall Those rumors kicked into higher gear after Monday when Sen Robert Rodriguez killed his own proposal to delay the implementation of new artificial intelligence regulations The House began work in the current era with a protest from those same House Republicans But not over the transgender bill After that measure passed Tuesday night specific House Democrats tried rapidly to amend another bill to resurrect the defunct delay on incoming AI regulations Colorado House attempts late-night move to delay AI regulations but effort fails This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e facts if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i