JurisdictionNIST AI RMF · Texas · ColoradoVersion 1.025 October 2026
AI laws in the United States: NIST, Texas, Colorado
The United States has no federal AI act: the NIST AI RMF, published on 26 January 2023, is voluntary, Texas HB 149 has applied since 1 January 2026 and names the NIST Generative AI Profile in one of its defenses, and Colorado SB26-189, signed on 14 May 2026, applies from 1 January 2027 to automated consequential decisions. Each page below reads one text in its primary source, with its dates, its scope and the records it calls for.
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Sector regulators also apply existing law to AI in their fields. These pages cover the texts that name AI systems or AI risk frameworks, and they share one set of dates with the rest of the site.
2 state laws written for AI, 2 guides.
Texas regulates intents and names a framework in a defense. Colorado regulates consequential decisions and asks deployers for 3 years of records.
- Texas HB 149, the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act In effect since 1 January 2026: who it covers, the attorney general's 60-day cure, penalties up to $200,000 and the defense of Section 552.105(e)(2)(D).
- The Colorado AI Act from 1 January 2027 SB26-189 replaces the 2024 act: who is covered, the records a deployer keeps, and the court order of 27 April 2026.
No federal AI statute. A voluntary framework that state law names.
NIST published the AI RMF (NIST AI 100-1) on 26 January 2023 for voluntary use, and its Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1) on 26 July 2024. Their legal weight comes from the state laws that name them: Texas names the Generative AI Profile in a defense, and Colorado's reenacted law no longer names the AI RMF.
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