A bill banning the term “excited delirium” passed the Colorado House.

The Colorado House today passed a bill that would potentially lead to the banning of “Excited Delirium” in official reporting.

If you don’t know about the history or how experts feel about the term, you can read a break down here. Otherwise lets discuss what is in the bill, who supports the bill, and most importantly, who doesn’t.

First, here is the bill summary at the time of this post:

The bill prohibits training for law enforcement personnel, emergency medical service providers, or other first responders from including the term “excited delirium”; except in an emergency medical service provider training the term may be used in teaching the history of the term . A peace officer is prohibited from using the term “excited delirium” to describe a person in an incident report. A coroner or other person authorized to determine a cause of death shall not register “excited delirium” as the cause of death on a death certificate.

So in other words the term would be banned from:

• Training (unless discussing the history of the term)
• Incident reports
• Death certificates