HB 26-1195 takes effect: the flip, not just the check

What happened

Colorado's HB 26-1195 took effect today — the country's first law requiring a real, licensed therapist to stay in the loop for AI use in psychotherapy actually bound, as opposed to being previewed. It bars AI from directly conducting therapeutic communication, generating unreviewed treatment recommendations, or performing unsupervised diagnosis/emotional-state detection, while still allowing AI for administrative/documentation support under full clinician responsibility. Yesterday's entry already confirmed no delay, amendment, or challenge on the legislative record; today's development is simply the law becoming binding law rather than a pending one — the upcoming.yaml ledger entry (colorado-hb1195-effective) flips to hit. Colorado's separate, broader AI Act (SB 26-189) remains under its own federal injunction fight and does not touch this bill or its companion HB 26-1139. (Colorado General Assembly)

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