---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonopioid Alternatives"
description: "Nonopioid Alternatives; Authorizing certain health care practitioners to provide a specified educational pamphlet to patients in an electronic format, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 530"
citation: "Florida SB 530 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-12"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/023fdca0-e43e-49c3-b819-27d0c963be90"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/530/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f4188531d4c53e44287b4c5d0d3739a741aa1228eaddc7d89eb060da30839083"
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 530 (2021) — Nonopioid Alternatives

Nonopioid Alternatives; Authorizing certain health care practitioners to provide a specified educational pamphlet to patients in an electronic format, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-12.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 530 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/530/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 530 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/530/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 530 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/530/BillText/e2/HTML)
4. **S 530 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/530/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-21** Referred to Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/04/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-04** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-04** Now in Rules
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-18** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/18/21
- **2021-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** Amendment(s) adopted (951554)
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Immediately certified
- **2021-03-18** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-13** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-16** Amendment 700035 filed
- **2021-04-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/22/2021)
- **2021-04-22** Substituted for HB 725
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Amendment 700035 adopted
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-23** Passed as amended; YEAS 108, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-23** In returning messages
- **2021-04-23** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-27** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (700035)
- **2021-04-27** Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-05-06** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-05-07** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-11** Chapter No. 2021-12

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/023fdca0-e43e-49c3-b819-27d0c963be90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).