republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1344.md

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Bill	FDA-approved Prescription 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Drug Use	The act states that if the United States food and drug administration approves a prescription medicine that contains 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), and if that medicine has been placed on a schedule of the federal "Controlled Substances Act", other than schedule I, or has been exempted from one or more provisions of such act, then thereafter prescribing, dispensing, transporting, possessing, and using that prescription drug is legal in Colorado only if the medicine is possessed by a person authorized to legally possess such a controlled substance in Colorado.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1344	Colorado HB 22-1344 (2022A)	bill		enacted	David Ortiz Joann Ginal John Cooke Patrick Neville	9	12	2	2022-03-28T06:00:00+00:00	2022-06-08T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/84ac3718-9844-424f-9ca5-828072f2b1e4	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1344	ea2ef9a1d1e849dad8f606ec9c205d6455370366a1100f8e3d8b71d42ca2c32c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1344 (2022A) — FDA-approved Prescription 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Drug Use

The act states that if the United States food and drug administration approves a prescription medicine that contains 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), and if that medicine has been placed on a schedule of the federal "Controlled Substances Act", other than schedule I, or has been exempted from one or more provisions of such act, then thereafter prescribing, dispensing, transporting, possessing, and using that prescription drug is legal in Colorado only if the medicine is possessed by a person authorized to legally possess such a controlled substance in Colorado.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/07/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/31/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/06/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/08/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/08/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 53–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Ortiz — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Patrick Neville — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2022-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2022-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84ac3718-9844-424f-9ca5-828072f2b1e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).