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Joint Technology Committee. The bill updates the membership
and issues of study for the task force for the consideration of facial
recognition services and changes the name of the task force to the
biometric technology and artificial intelligence policy task force (task
force). The task force will expand from 15 to 17 members and now
includes a member who is an expert in generative artificial intelligence
technology; a member who is an expert in social media, biometric
technology, or artificial intelligence technology; and a member who is an
advocate for youth safety and privacy. The member who represents the
Colorado bureau of investigation will be replaced.
The bill updates the issues of study of the task force to include
artificial intelligence technology and biometric technology in addition to
facial recognition technology. The scope of the task force is expanded to
include a focus on the use of these emerging technologies generally rather
than their use by only state and local government agencies.
The bill adds exceptions to the moratorium on schools using facial
recognition technologies, which would allow a school to use facial
recognition technologies in certain circumstances.
The bill modifies the reporting requirements for state agencies that
use facial recognition services so that agency records are maintained by
the agency and subject to inspection and review by the office of
information technology.

Current law authorizes a public school or public place to refuse a
donated automated external defibrillator (AED) if the public school or
public place does not want to accept responsibility for AED training,
installation, or maintenance unless the donating party agrees to be
responsible for the AED training, installation, and maintenance. The bill
removes this authorization for a public school but allows a public school
to decide who will be trained, the frequency of training, and when the
AED training will take place.

Section 1 of the bill clarifies existing definitions in the
Protections for Public Workers Act (Act), including the definitions of
employee organization and public employee. Section 2 applies the
clarified definition of public employee in the context of protected,
concerted activity for the purpose of mutual aid or protection and also
adds guidance for interpretation of that particular right guaranteed to
public employees by the Act. Section 2 also modifies the scope and
applicability of a public employer's authority to limit the rights of public
employees in certain circumstances.