republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-022.md

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Bill	Clinical Practice For Opioid Prescribing	Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders Interim Study Committee. The bill restricts the number of opioid pills that a health care practitioner, including physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, and veterinarians, may prescribe for an initial prescription to a seven-day supply and allows each health care practitioner to exercise discretion to include a second fill for a seven-day supply, unless, in the judgment of the practitioner, the patient:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-022	Colorado SB 18-022 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Chris Kennedy Irene Aguilar Jack Tate	10	17	4	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-21T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bb42c1d3-287d-4228-8d86-170ad472d857	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-022	d39ea2cd62fa690b94afd310eed4adff8d5918455dfefed266efb09822725e5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-022 (2018A) — Clinical Practice For Opioid Prescribing

Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders Interim Study Committee. The bill restricts the number of opioid pills that a health care practitioner, including physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, and veterinarians, may prescribe for an initial prescription to a seven-day supply and allows each health care practitioner to exercise discretion to include a second fill for a seven-day supply, unless, in the judgment of the practitioner, the patient:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/09/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 34–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–6 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 29–6 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
• Irene Aguilar — primary (person)
• Jack Tate — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction
• 2018-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/16/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb42c1d3-287d-4228-8d86-170ad472d857. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).