---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dispensing Medicinal Drugs"
description: "Dispensing Medicinal Drugs; Authorizing certain hospitals to dispense supplies of prescribed medicinal drugs in a specified amount to emergency department patients or inpatients upon discharge under certain circumstances; authorizing a greater specified supply of medicinal drugs to be prescribed and dispensed in areas in which a state of emergency has been declared and is in effect; authorizing a prescriber to provide a patient with a prescription for medicinal drugs beyond the initial prescription period under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 262"
citation: "Florida SB 262 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-121"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-14"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c046855b-f700-4ada-a28e-4babe4f8914b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/262/ByCategory"
source_hash: "192d4c5a2ab1cf99c45887dc21c6d9f2c20dd40b4a646bfd6cd2c79b0ead32b5"
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 SB 262 (2021) — Dispensing Medicinal Drugs

Dispensing Medicinal Drugs; Authorizing certain hospitals to dispense supplies of prescribed medicinal drugs in a specified amount to emergency department patients or inpatients upon discharge under certain circumstances; authorizing a greater specified supply of medicinal drugs to be prescribed and dispensed in areas in which a state of emergency has been declared and is in effect; authorizing a prescriber to provide a patient with a prescription for medicinal drugs beyond the initial prescription period under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-121.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 262 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/262/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 262 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/262/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 262 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/262/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-14** Filed `filing`
- **2020-12-21** Referred to Health Policy; Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-05** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/10/21, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-10** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Now in Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/23/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-23** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-25** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-25** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security read 1st time
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-19** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-22** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-22** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-121

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c046855b-f700-4ada-a28e-4babe4f8914b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).