CO HB1115

Requires Colorado pharmacies to provide accessible prescription drug label information to patients with difficulty seeing or reading standard printed labels, effective July 1, 2025.

Pharmacies must offer patients a choice of accessibility methods: electronic labels with audio transmission, free prescription drug readers, Braille or large print labels, or other methods recommended by the U.S. Access Board.

Pharmacies have up to 28 days to comply with requests for accessibility methods not previously provided, while making reasonable efforts to ensure patient safety during implementation.

Creates a prescription accessibility grant program providing up to $1,500 per pharmacy for equipment purchases, with $80,000 appropriated from the general fund for the 2024-25 fiscal year.

Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to adopt implementing rules by January 1, 2025, and the Department of Public Health and Environment to report on grant awards by January 1, 2026; the grant program repeals July 1, 2027.