---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospice Inpatient Unit Specialized Prescription Drug Outlet"
description: "The act allows a pharmacy located within a hospice inpatient unit to register as a specialized prescription drug outlet for the purposes of providing drugs, devices, and pharmacist services to the residents of the hospice inpatient unit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1246"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1246 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janet Buckner", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-08T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c76c0cf-de43-42cb-b500-2e650253ed41"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1246"
source_hash: "3e2764d59c543fca58faee8df55d639f40e2f44dc350eb0bb7d1724d1f39af35"
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 22-1246 (2022A) — Hospice Inpatient Unit Specialized Prescription Drug Outlet

The act allows a pharmacy located within a hospice inpatient unit to register as a specialized prescription drug outlet for the purposes of providing drugs, devices, and pharmacist services to the residents of the hospice inpatient unit.

## 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_hb1246_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/17/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_s_fin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1246_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1246_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **55–10** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **60–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-23T06:00:00+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
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17T07:00:00+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/7c76c0cf-de43-42cb-b500-2e650253ed41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).