---
type: "Bill"
title: "Institutional Formularies Established by Nursing Home Facilities"
description: "Institutional Formularies Established by Nursing Home Facilities; Authorizes nursing home facility to establish & implement institutional formulary; requires facility to maintain written policies & procedures for institutional formulary & make available to AHCA, upon request; provides requirements relating to prescribers; prohibits facility from taking adverse action against prescriber or resident under certain circumstances; authorizes pharmacist to substitute medicinal drugs under institutional formulary established by facility under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 559"
citation: "Florida HB 559 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-103"
primary_sponsors: ["Byrd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-11-06"
last_action: "2020-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dc3b825-0ed4-481d-8e0c-d4a790c30d08"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/559/ByCategory"
source_hash: "92a8e3a3195bd4a1ea86dc4aa18863c35da395f5d169bc9f2138ccea4806e23a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida HB 559 (2020) — Institutional Formularies Established by Nursing Home Facilities

Institutional Formularies Established by Nursing Home Facilities; Authorizes nursing home facility to establish & implement institutional formulary; requires facility to maintain written policies & procedures for institutional formulary & make available to AHCA, upon request; provides requirements relating to prescribers; prohibits facility from taking adverse action against prescriber or resident under certain circumstances; authorizes pharmacist to substitute medicinal drugs under institutional formulary established by facility under certain circumstances.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-103.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 559 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/559/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 559 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/559/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 559 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/559/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Market Reform Subcommittee) — **13–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Byrd — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-11-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-11-15** Referred to Health Market Reform Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-04** On Committee agenda-- Health Market Reform Subcommittee, 12/11/19, 4:00 pm, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-12-11** Favorable by Health Market Reform Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-12-16** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 12:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2020-02-04** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/12/20, 10:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-12** CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-13** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-13** CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for SB 1020
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Chapter No. 2020-103

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5dc3b825-0ed4-481d-8e0c-d4a790c30d08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).