---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preserving Access to Rural Independent Pharmacies"
description: "The act prevents a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) from prohibiting a rural independent pharmacy from using a private courier or a delivery service to deliver a prescription drug to a patient."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1222"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1222 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Dylan Roberts", "Meghan Lukens", "Ty Winter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-27T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/408cc929-fa32-4c0d-aa66-df2430f24d64"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1222"
source_hash: "0d3c7c83df3672ad1146c599a7828176bdb7c900a665f570c5686858e50d40ea"
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 25-1222 (2025A) — Preserving Access to Rural Independent Pharmacies

The act prevents a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) from prohibiting a rural independent pharmacy from using a private courier or a delivery service to deliver a prescription drug to a patient.

## 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/2025a_hb1222_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_h_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_s_hhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1222_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1222_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **60–3** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **60–3** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **61–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Meghan Lukens — primary (person)
- Ty Winter — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- B. Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rich — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
- L. Garcia Sander — cosponsor (person)
- L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
- M. Baisley — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Soper — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- P. Lundeen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Armagost — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bright — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/408cc929-fa32-4c0d-aa66-df2430f24d64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).