Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources

Wednesday, March 25, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee unanimously advanced HB26-1198, a bipartisan measure creating a veterinary drug donation program and streamlining out-of-state licensure, sending it to the consent calendar as sponsors pressed the case that rural Colorado is a 'veterinary desert.'

Key Actions

·Access to Veterinary CarePassed

Notable Quotes

“I think there's. Nine of my 13 counties are actually in a veterinary desert. We have to go out of county to get anybody to come in.”
Rod Pelton — Pelton's rural-access argument, illustrating the shortage of veterinarians the licensure-endorsement provisions aim to address.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction

Yes (7)Marc Catlin, Nick Hinrichsen, Cathy Kipp, Rod Pelton, Jessie Danielson, Dylan Roberts, Byron Pelton

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TranscriptPreview

Good morning. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee will come to order on Wednesday, March 25th. Ms. Jackson, please call the roll. Senator Catlin. Here. Senator Henrickson. Excused. Senator Kipp. Here. Senator Pelton B. Excused. Senator Pelton. Senator Danielson. Excused. Mr. Chair. Here. All right. I know the rest of our committee members are just outside. They'll be making their way in. But we have our bill sponsors before us. And so we're ready to go with House Bill 1198 by Senators Cutter and Pelton R. Who would like to start? Senator cutter. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, committee, for. So nice to be here again. So last year I ran. I don't even remember the number, but we ran a bill to make sure that prescription drugs were. Could be donated in certain circumstances so that they didn't go to waste, and people who needed them and maybe couldn't afford them had the opportunity. So we tried to do something in there with veterinary prescriptions, and we were not able to. So in this bill, which Representative McCormick started with her good authority as a veterinarian, we're trying to do some of that. So each year…

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