Colorado lawmakers push key bills as session nears end

State of play: State lawmakers are working late hours and scrambling to advance bills by the May 13 adjournment.

• The unfinished legislation includes measures to:

🤖 Put guardrails on the use of AI technology in making consequential decisions that could lead to discrimination.

⚖️ Allow individuals to sue immigration enforcement authorities for violating their civil rights.

👋 Make it easier for inmates to be released or avoid incarceration when state prisons face overcrowding.

💰 Raise taxes by $550 million on certain businesses and create a new tax credit for families earning less than $100,000 a year.

⛑️ Impose a one-time fee on insurers to lower exchange plan premiums and fund coverage for undocumented immigrants.

💳 Ban the use of credit cards for sports betting and cap deposits to six per day.

🕵️‍♂️ Bar businesses from using surveillance AI to set prices or wages based on personal data, such as browsing history, financial status or habits.

⚖ Allow people subjected to "conversion therapy" to sue certain professionals for damages tied to efforts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.