[Colorado-Talk] HB24-1115: Please Attend Prescription Drug Label Accessibility Stakeholder Meeting

[Curtis Chong]

Greetings and salutations:

 

On Friday, February 2, at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time, Representative Mary Young
will be holding a stakeholder Zoom meeting on HB24-1115, an accessible
prescription labeling bill. This is a bill that is fully supported by the
National Federation of the Blind of Colorado.

 

We urge anyone who is interested in this issue to join the Zoom meeting
using the information shown below. There is no need to pre-register.

 

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Mary Young is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

 

Topic: HB24-1115 Prescription Drug Label Accessibility Stakeholder Meeting

Time: Feb 2, 2024 02:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81087153481?pwd=6RaZLnET8MbAFVSljmbdkrttWGRbsa.1

 

Meeting ID: 810 8715 3481

Passcode: 844045

 

HB24-1115 requires a pharmacy to provide an individual who has difficulty
seeing or reading standard printed labels on prescription drug containers
with access to the prescription drug label information by:

.           Including an electronic label affixed to the prescription drug
container that transmits the prescription drug's label information,
directions, and written instructions to an end user's external accessible
device, including an individual's compatible prescription drug reader;

.           Providing a prescription drug reader at no cost to the
individual;

.           Providing a prescription drug label in braille or large print;
or 

.           Providing the individual with a method recommended by the United
States access board. 

 

The state pharmacy board may exempt from the requirements of the bill a
pharmacy that is a sole proprietorship with no more than 2 pharmacists for
which, upon request of the pharmacy, the board determines compliance would
create an undue burden.

 

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Here is a link to the PDF version of HB24-1115. Apologies if you have
difficulty reading the PDF document.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PAHK3kpEpzpUkesPheKyakn95N9xEnbI
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PAHK3kpEpzpUkesPheKyakn95N9xEnbI&authuser
=1> &authuser=1

 

We express our appreciation to Representative Mary Young, Representative
Junie Joseph, and Senator Steve Fenberg for sponsoring HB24-1115. 

 

Best wishes,

 

Curtis Chong and Dan Burke

NFB of Colorado Legislative Cochairs