While finding a way to plug an almost $800 million budget hole tops the business for lawmakers at next week’s special session, time is also closing fast for a fix to a 2024 law on artificial intelligence.

Gov. Jared Polis signed the new law outlining regulations on AI, though not without misgivings.

At least four bills are being planned for the special session. Colorado Politics has obtained drafts of three of the four. The fourth is believed to be coming from Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, D-Denver, the original sponsor of Senate Bill 205, the AI regulation measure.

What’s notable about the first three: None propose only a delay of the original implementation date of Feb. 1, 2026.

SB 205 sought to establish guardrails around the use of AI, largely in employment, health care,

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