Health insurance carriers would have been prohibited from limiting patients’ ability to select their own pharmacy under a bill that was killed Wednesday by a Colorado House committee.

House Bill 1154, proposed by the bipartisan duo of Reps. Kyle Mullica, D-Northglenn, and Marc Catlin, R-Montrose, died in the House Committee on Health and Insurance. Both representatives also sit on the committee.

Along with allowing patients to select the pharmacy of their choice, the bill would have prohibited insurance carriers from imposing fees or any other conditions on patients for that choice.

It would have also prohibited carriers from denying pharmacies or pharmacists the right to participate in the company’s network contracts, so long as they were properly licensed and agreed to the conditions that apply to a network.

The bill had bipartisan sponsorship in the Senate.