---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of Vaccines"
description: "Administration of Vaccines; Revising the specified immunizations or vaccines that certified pharmacists and registered interns may administer to adults; authorizing certain pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to individuals 7 years of age or older under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 768"
citation: "Florida SB 768 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health", "regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-127"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26136ca9-c060-424f-acba-cb2f43547d54"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/768/ByCategory"
source_hash: "917b83d1297d7c483bb8096d923db7924f82d47662a9149238618109103ec8ad"
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 768 (2021) — Administration of Vaccines

Administration of Vaccines; Revising the specified immunizations or vaccines that certified pharmacists and registered interns may administer to adults; authorizing certain pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to individuals 7 years of age or older under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-127.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 768 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/768/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 768 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/768/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 768 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/768/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 768 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/768/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–4** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Baxley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/17/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-17** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 4 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-17** Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/30/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-30** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2021-04-02** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-16** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-16** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed; YEAS 29 NAYS 11 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** 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 2)
- **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 112, NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-127

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26136ca9-c060-424f-acba-cb2f43547d54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).