CO SB077

Requires the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to gather and distribute evidence-based information on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and other epilepsy-related mortalities to families and health-care practitioners by July 1, 2027

Mandates training for death investigation professionals (coroners, medical examiners, forensic pathologists) on the latest epilepsy-related death investigation recommendations from nationally recognized organizations

Requires death investigations suspected to involve epilepsy or seizures to include a determination of whether the death was a direct result of epilepsy, with death certificates listing epilepsy as a contributing or suspected cause when consistent with SUDEP

Directs the department to conduct a statewide public health campaign on epilepsy and its mortality risks, and to report all epilepsy-related deaths to a SUDEP registry

Named "Lincoln's Law," the bill cites that SUDEP affects 1 in 1,000 people with epilepsy and 1 in 150 with uncontrolled seizures, with over 6,000 epilepsy-related deaths annually in the U.S.