---
type: "Bill"
title: "Extend Prohibition on School Facial Recognition"
description: "In current law there is a prohibition on schools contracting for facial recognition services that is set to repeal on July 1, 2025. The prohibition contains an exception for a contract executed prior to the date the prohibition became law or a renewal of that contract. The act removes the repeal and creates new exceptions for contracts that are:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-143"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-143 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lindsey Daugherty", "Michael Carter", "Paul Lundeen", "Ryan Armagost"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c6f46fd-2059-446f-a3d2-a2b2742686b4"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-143"
source_hash: "496b756c79bf4fdb53560d005b34ba0f9b3357b02ceb917d1777f9e22b74e5fa"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado SB 25-143 (2025A) — Extend Prohibition on School Facial Recognition

In current law there is a prohibition on schools contracting for facial recognition services that is set to repeal on July 1, 2025. The prohibition contains an exception for a contract executed prior to the date the prohibition became law or a renewal of that contract. The act removes the repeal and creates new exceptions for contracts that are:

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_sb143_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_143_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_143_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
- Michael Carter — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
- Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
- B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/13/2025 - No Amendments
- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c6f46fd-2059-446f-a3d2-a2b2742686b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).