---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy Benefit Manager Prohibited Practices"
description: "The act enacts the \"Colorado 340B Prescription Drug Program Anti-discrimination Act\" (act), which prohibits health insurers, PBMs, and other third-party payers (third-party payers) from discriminating against entities participating in the federal 340B drug pricing program (340B covered entity), including a pharmacy that contracts with a 340B covered entity to provide dispensing services to the 340B entity (contract pharmacy). Specifically, the act prohibits a third-party payer from:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1122"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1122 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandy Lindsay", "Perry Will", "Sonya Jaquez Lewis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-21T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b94a8ee8-aa13-491d-a506-d4f558137a78"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1122"
source_hash: "4b3fa111c43a266dd8b4c2672445f15ab4ba26df32a149ae19ac231c7df21d8a"
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 22-1122 (2022A) — Pharmacy Benefit Manager Prohibited Practices

The act enacts the "Colorado 340B Prescription Drug Program Anti-discrimination Act" (act), which prohibits health insurers, PBMs, and other third-party payers (third-party payers) from discriminating against entities participating in the federal 340B drug pricing program (340B covered entity), including a pharmacy that contracts with a 340B covered entity to provide dispensing services to the 340B entity (contract pharmacy). Specifically, the act prohibits a third-party payer from:

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_hb1122_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/31/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_h_hi_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_h_hi_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_s_hhs_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1122_rv2.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1122_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **44–20** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **45–20** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **43–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)
- Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2022-01-21T07:00:00+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/b94a8ee8-aa13-491d-a506-d4f558137a78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).