republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-143.md

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Bill	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:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-143	Colorado SB 25-143 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Lindsey Daugherty Michael Carter Paul Lundeen Ryan Armagost	9	16	4	2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8c6f46fd-2059-446f-a3d2-a2b2742686b4	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-143	496b756c79bf4fdb53560d005b34ba0f9b3357b02ceb917d1777f9e22b74e5fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Engrossed (03/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/8c6f46fd-2059-446f-a3d2-a2b2742686b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).