---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reduce Insulin Prices"
description: "Prescription insulin drugs - 30-day supply - cost-sharing cap - appropriation. Effective January 1, 2020, the act caps the cost sharing a covered person is required to pay for prescription insulin drugs at $100 per 30-day supply of insulin."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1216"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1216 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Kerry Donovan", "Kevin Priola"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0db4684-a054-40fd-9a8d-f45c28e75af5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1216"
source_hash: "39bea5f225f139cbccff51e0fe659aa8400eee802ddda3c1b1eb718943b34b6c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 19-1216 (2019A) — Reduce Insulin Prices

Prescription insulin drugs - 30-day supply - cost-sharing cap - appropriation. Effective January 1, 2020, the act caps the cost sharing a covered person is required to pay for prescription insulin drugs at $100 per 30-day supply of insulin.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1216_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216hi_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216shhs_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1216_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1216_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **51–13** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **53–12** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **50–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0db4684-a054-40fd-9a8d-f45c28e75af5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).