republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1313.md

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Bill	Pharmacists To Serve As Practitioners	The bill clarifies that a licensed and qualified pharmacist may serve as a practitioner and prescribe over-the-counter medication under the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act" and a statewide drug therapy protocol pursuant to a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1313	Colorado HB 18-1313 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Irene Aguilar Joann Ginal Jon Becker Kevin Priola	9	13	2	2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00	2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f08c3a61-9474-4c9a-9029-79621e4e5357	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1313	054f225da12dfc8f6f4407896d4298b40975deb04cafc3469aa96be7db5b576e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1313 (2018A) — Pharmacists To Serve As Practitioners

The bill clarifies that a licensed and qualified pharmacist may serve as a practitioner and prescribe over-the-counter medication under the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act" and a statewide drug therapy protocol pursuant to a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/14/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/30/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irene Aguilar — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Jon Becker — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f08c3a61-9474-4c9a-9029-79621e4e5357. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).