Senate Bill 17-294 Summary

• Performs nonsubstantive revision of Colorado statutes to amend or repeal obsolete, imperfect, and inoperative provisions while preserving legislative intent, effect, and meaning

• Changes gender-specific pronouns throughout statutes to refer to position titles (e.g., "state auditor" instead of "he/his"), and updates language to use "shall" replaced with "must" and other clarifying terminology

• Removes 120+ obsolete provisions including expired one-time audit requirements, repealed programs with expired deadlines, and inoperative conditional provisions that were never triggered

• Corrects internal statutory cross-references that became invalid due to prior repeals, relocations, and renumbering of provisions in Colorado's legal code

• Conforming amendments to reflect prior legislation including changes from federal law updates, renaming of state divisions, and terminology updates like "vocational education" to "career and technical education"