§ 2-3-1701 — Definitions

Colorado § 2-3-1701

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 02: Legislative
• Art.: Legislative Services

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As used in this part 17, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence system means any
machine-based system that, for any explicit or implicit objective, infers, from the
inputs the system receives, how to generate outputs, including content, decisions,
predictions, or recommendations, that can influence physical or virtual
environments.

(2) Committee means the joint technology committee created in section 2-3-1702.

(3) Cybersecurity means a broad range of technologies, processes, and
practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs, and data from
attack, damage, or unauthorized access.

(4) Data privacy means the collection and dissemination of data and
technology and the public expectation of privacy. Data privacy also includes the
way personally identifiable information or other sensitive information is collected,
stored, used, and finally destroyed or deleted, in digital form or otherwise.

(5) Disproportionately impacted community has the meaning set forth in
section 24-4-109 (2)(b)(II).

(6) Facial recognition service has the meaning set forth in section 24-18-301 (5).

(7) Information technology means technology, infrastructure, equipment,
systems, or software that controls, displays, switches, interchanges, transmits, and
receives data or information, including audio, video, graphics, and text. Information
technology shall be construed broadly to incorporate future technologies that
change or supplant those in effect as of September 7, 2021.

(8) Information technology budget request means a budget request from a
state agency or state institution of higher education for the installation,
development, maintenance, or upgrade of information technology, including the
purchase of services from the office on the condition that the use of such services
is the most cost beneficial option or falls within the duties and responsibilities of
the office or the office's chief information officer as described in sections 24-37.5-105 and 24-37.5-106. Information technology budget request does not include
budget requests that are primarily operational in nature or a budget request where
the majority of funding will be used to support or modify state staffing levels.

(9) Office of information technology or office means the office of
information technology created in section 24-37.5-103.

(10) Oversee means reviews of major information technology projects as
defined in section 24-37.5-102 (19), reviews of the office's budget requests for
information technology projects, and ensuring that information technology projects
follow best practice standards as established by the office. Oversee does not
include interference with the office's general responsibilities set forth in this article
3.

(11) State agency means all of the departments, divisions, commissions,
boards, bureaus, and institutions in the executive branch of the state government.
State agency does not include the legislative or judicial department, the
department of law, the department of state, the department of the treasury, or
state-supported institutions of higher education, including the Auraria higher
education center established in article 70 of title 23.

(12) Task force means the artificial intelligence impact task force created
in section 2-3-1707.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2013: Entire part added, (HB 13-1079), ch. 246, p. 1187, � 1, effective May 18. L. 2014: (2.5) added and (2.5)(b) amended, (HB 14-1395), ch. 309, pp. 1304, 1309, �� 1, 9, effective May 31. L. 2017: (1.3) and (1.7) added and (4) amended, (SB 17-304), ch. 252, p. 1054, � 1, effective August 9. L. 2021: (2), (2.5), and (4) amended, (HB 21-1236), ch. 211, p. 1093, � 1, effective September 7. L. 2022: Entire section amended, (SB 22-113), ch. 463, p. 3282, � 3, effective August 10. L. 2024: (1) and (12) amended, (HB 24-1468), ch. 467, p. 3233, � 1, effective June 6.