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Senate advances and amends SB32 to expand immunization access while preserving budget oversight
Summary
After extensive debate and multiple floor amendments, the Colorado Senate advanced Senate Bill 32 (promotion of immunization access), adopting compromise language that expands immunization access (including independent prescriptive authority for some providers) while adding budget safeguards to address state fiscal exposure; several liability and parental-consent amendments failed. SB32 passed committee of the whole and was ordered for third reading as amended.
The Colorado Senate advanced Senate Bill 32 on Feb. 4, 2026, after detailed floor debate over funding, liability, parental consent and scope of prescriptive authority for immunizations.
Senator Mullica introduced the Health and Human Services committee report, noting definitions and technical fixes added in committee, removal of redundant pharmacy rulemaking, and authorization for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to purchase vaccines. Multiple floor amendments were offered and adopted to clarify coverage and supply-chain language.
Floor debate turned to fiscal exposure in a change that would remove an existing statutory prohibition on using state general funds for infant immunization programs if federal funds were not received. Senator Bright…
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