# HOUSE BILL 24-1147 (Colorado) — effective July 1, 2024 For HOUSE BILL 24-1147 (Colorado), effective date is July 1, 2024; what it applies to is election communications that include a deepfake of a candidate distributed on or after that date, recorded from its source on 2026-09-08. - **Jurisdiction:** Colorado _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **Instrument:** HOUSE BILL 24-1147 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_ - **Effective date:** July 1, 2024 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **What it applies to:** election communications that include a deepfake of a candidate distributed on or after that date _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ ## What the source says > SECTION 4. Effective date - applicability. This act takes effect July 1, 2024, and applies to communications distributed on or after said date. ## Where each value comes from This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it. ### Instrument > HOUSE BILL 24-1147 ## Source - https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1147_signed.pdf Last verified: 2026-09-08. Review by: 2026-10-23. Part of [AI law and regulation effective dates by jurisdiction](https://referencesource.org/ai-regulation-effective-dates/).