SB 17-227

Senate Bill 17-227 is a Colorado law that moves parts of the state's laws about lawyers from one section (Title 12) to another section (Title 13). This change also makes some updates and removes the old version of those lawyer-related laws. The bill has been signed into law, which means it’s now official and in effect. It affects how Colorado’s legal profession is organized within state statutes but doesn’t make any major changes to how lawyers practice or are regulated.

Official Summary

Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12, Colorado Revised Statutes, which relates to professions and occupations. To implement the initial recommendations of the study, section 1 of the bill relocates article 5 of title 12, attorneys-at-law, to a new article 93 in title 13, Colorado Revised Statutes. Sections 2 to 9 of the bill make conforming amendments and section 10 repeals the article where the law was previously codified.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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