---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers"
description: "Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers; Revises entities conducting pharmacy audits to which certain requirements & restrictions apply; authorizes audited pharmacies to appeal certain findings; provides that health insurers & HMOs that transfer certain payment obligation to pharmacy benefit managers remain responsible for specified violations; provides penalty for failure to register as pharmacy benefit managers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 357"
citation: "Florida HB 357 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance", "regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-200"
primary_sponsors: ["Toledo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-19"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5435d95d-518f-4b6e-be97-23966250956e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/357/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e10b74737a2534cca4c08fb7a9fe3eb153987b94847763bc7bf6786532139848"
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 357 (2022) — Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers; Revises entities conducting pharmacy audits to which certain requirements & restrictions apply; authorizes audited pharmacies to appeal certain findings; provides that health insurers & HMOs that transfer certain payment obligation to pharmacy benefit managers remain responsible for specified violations; provides penalty for failure to register as pharmacy benefit managers.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-200.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 357 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/357/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 357 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/357/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Finance & Facilities Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Toledo — primary (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bush — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- McCurdy — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Rayner — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Sabatini — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Sirois — cosponsor (person)
- Slosberg-King — cosponsor (person)
- Smith, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-19** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Now in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
- **2022-01-10** Added to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-12** Favorable by Finance & Facilities Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-12** Reported out of Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
- **2022-01-12** Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-01-21** Added to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** Reported out of State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-01-25** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-01-28** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2022-02-01** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-01** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-01** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-01** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/24/2022)
- **2022-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Passed; YEAS 106, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-25** In Messages
- **2022-02-25** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Received
- **2022-03-03** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for SB 1476
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-03** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-21** Chapter No. 2022-200

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5435d95d-518f-4b6e-be97-23966250956e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).