NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/9/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1095
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) McCann, Ginal, Primavera, Buckner, Duran,
      Esgar, Fields, Hamner, Kraft-Tharp, Lee, Lontine, Melton, Mitsch Bush,
      Moreno, Rosenthal, Ryden, Williams, Young, Hullinghorst;
      also SENATOR(S) Crowder, Aguilar, Grantham, Guzman, Heath, Jones,
      Kefalas, Merrifield, Newell, Scheffel, Todd.
      
      
      Concerning health insurance coverage for early refills of
           prescription eye drops.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 10-16-104, add (22) as
      follows:
      
           10-16-104.  Mandatory coverage provisions - definitions - rules.
      (22)  Prescription eye drop refill coverage. (a)  Any health benefit
      plan, except supplemental policies covering a specified disease or
      other limited benefit, that provides coverage for prescription eye
      drops shall provide coverage for:
      
           (I)  A renewal of prescription eye drops if:
      
           (A)  The renewal is requested by the insured at least
      twenty-one days for a thirty-day supply of eye drops, forty-two
      days for a sixty-day supply of eye drops, or sixty-three days for
      a ninety-day supply of eye drops, from the later of the date that
      the original prescription was distributed to the insured or the
      date that the last renewal of the prescription was distributed to
      the insured; and
      
           (B)  The original prescription states that additional
      quantities are needed and  the renewal requested by the insured
      does not exceed the number of additional quantities needed; and
      
           (II)  One additional bottle of prescription eye drops if:
      
           (A)  A bottle is requested by the insured or the health care
      provider at the time the original prescription is filled; and
      
           (B)  The original prescription states that one additional
      bottle is needed by the insured for use in a day care center,
      school, or adult day program. The additional bottle is limited to
      one bottle every three months.
      
           (b)  The prescription eye drop benefits covered under this
      subsection (22) are subject to the same annual deductibles,
      copayment, or coinsurance established for all other prescription
      drug benefits under the health benefit plan.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect January 1, 2017; except that, if a referendum petition is filed
      pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state constitution against this act
      or an item, section, or part of this act within the ninety-day period after final
      adjournment of the general assembly, then the act, item, section, or part will
      not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be
      held in November 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on January 1,
      2017, or on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the
      governor, whichever is later.
      
      
      
      
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      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                            Effie Ameen
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO