Section 25-1.5-122 - Pharmacy labels - prescription accessibility grant program - repeal(1) The prescription accessibility grant program is created in the department. The purpose of the grant program is to provide hardship grants to pharmacies for the purchase of equipment used to create accessible prescription labels.(2) Grant recipients may use the money received through the grant program to purchase equipment used to create accessible prescription labels.(3) The department shall administer the grant program and, subject to available appropriations, shall award grants as provided in this section. Grants must be paid out of money appropriated for the grant program as provided in subsection (5) of this section.(4)(a) To receive a grant, a pharmacy must submit an application to the department in accordance with rules promulgated by the executive director of the department.(b) The department shall review the applications received pursuant to this section.(c) Each grant recipient may be awarded up to one thousand five hundred dollars.(5) Subject to available appropriations, on or before July 1, 2025, the department shall award grants as provided in this section.(6) On or before January 1, 2026, the department shall submit a summarized report to the house of representatives health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, or their successor committees, on the grant program. At a minimum, the report must include the number of grants awarded, the amount of each grant, and the grant recipients.(7) The general assembly shall appropriate eighty thousand dollars from the general fund to the department to implement the grant program. The department may use a portion of the money appropriated for the program to pay the direct and indirect costs that the department incurs to administer the grant program. Any money appropriated pursuant to this subsection (7) that is not expended or encumbered at the end of the 2024-25 state fiscal year remains available for expenditure by the department for the purposes of this section in the next state fiscal year without further appropriation.(8) This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2027.Added by 2024 Ch. 321,§ 2, eff. 8/7/2024.2024 Ch. 321, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).