HB 18-1091

House Bill 18-1091 updates Colorado’s laws regarding dementia diseases like Alzheimer's by recognizing that these conditions can cause related disabilities affecting memory and cognitive abilities. The bill also expands a missing persons alert program to include individuals with dementia, renaming the program to reflect this change. Additionally, it renames an existing research center at the University of Colorado to focus on treating and researching all types of dementia diseases and their associated disabilities. Since the bill has been signed into law, these changes are now in effect.

Official Summary

The bill updates statutory references to Alzheimer's and other dementia diseases and reflects that dementia diseases have related disabilities impacting memory and other cognitive abilities. Missing persons with a dementia disease and related disability are added to the missing senior citizen and missing person with developmental disabilities alert program, and the program is renamed to reflect this change. The Alzheimer's disease treatment and research center within the university of Colorado school of medicine is renamed the dementia diseases and related disabilities treatment and research center. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More

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