---
type: "Bill"
title: "Automated Pharmacy Systems"
description: "Automated Pharmacy Systems; Authorizes community pharmacy to use automated pharmacy system; provides certain medicinal drugs stored in automated pharmacy system for outpatient dispensing are part of inventory of pharmacy providing services through such system; requires community pharmacies to adopt policies & procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "Florida HB 59 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-124"
primary_sponsors: ["Health Quality Subcommittee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-08-14"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99c8f0ee-fee1-4289-a488-1cebb6fe1a85"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/59/ByCategory"
source_hash: "beb1a8b6b80d6ffc02082d17b898aa4aeeb5882cc51748de3523a9cb2b347b60"
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 59 (2020) — Automated Pharmacy Systems

Automated Pharmacy Systems; Authorizes community pharmacy to use automated pharmacy system; provides certain medicinal drugs stored in automated pharmacy system for outpatient dispensing are part of inventory of pharmacy providing services through such system; requires community pharmacies to adopt policies & procedures.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-124.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 59 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/59/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 59 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/59/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 59 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/59/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 59 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/59/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 59 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/59/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **27–12** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Quality Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health Quality Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-14** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-23** Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-30** On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 11/06/19, 9:30 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-11-06** CS by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0
- **2019-11-07** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-11-12** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/15/20, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Health Quality Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/18/20, 3:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-18** CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-20** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-20** CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** 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** Amendment(s) adopted (367333)
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Temporarily postponed, on 3rd Reading
- **2020-03-10** Temporarily postponed, on 3rd Reading
- **2020-03-11** Temporarily postponed, on 3rd Reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** In Messages
- **2020-03-12** Referred to Health Policy; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-12** Withdrawn from Health Policy; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-12** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 708
- **2020-03-12** Received
- **2020-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-12** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-13** Amendment(s) failed (439782, 742400)
- **2020-03-13** CS passed; YEAS 27 NAYS 12 -SJ 853, 854 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Chapter No. 2020-124

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99c8f0ee-fee1-4289-a488-1cebb6fe1a85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).