As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Board" means the Colorado brain injury trust fund board created pursuant to section26-1-302.
(1.5) (a) "Brain injury" refers to damage to the brain from an internal or external source, including a traumatic injury, that occurs post-birth and is noncongenital, nondegenerative, and nonhereditary, resulting in partial or total functional impairment in one or more areas, including but not limited to attention, memory, reasoning, problem solving, speed of processing, decisionmaking, learning, perception, sensory impairment, speech and language, motor and physical functioning, or psychosocial behavior.
(b) Documentation of brain injury must be based on adequate medical history. A brain injury must be of sufficient severity to produce partial or total disability.
"Program" means the services provided pursuant to this part 3.
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2019.)
"Trust fund" means the Colorado brain injury trust fund created in section 26-1-309.
Source: L. 2002: Entire section added, p. 1604, § 1, effective January 1, 2003. L. 2003: (3) amended, p. 1998, § 48, effective May 22. L. 2009: IP, (1), and (3) amended, (SB 09-005), ch. 135, p. 587, § 1, effective April 20. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (HB 19-1147), ch. 178, p. 2028, § 1, effective August 2.
Editor's note: This section was enacted as 26-1-202 in House Bill 02-1281 but was renumbered on revision for ease of location.