---
type: "Bill"
title: "Controlled Substances"
description: "Controlled Substances; Revising the elements that constitute the capital offense of murder in the first degree; revising the elements that constitute the felony offense of murder in the third degree; prohibiting specified activities involving controlled substances within 1,000 feet of additional specified facilities; providing criminal penalties; renaming what the violation of specified offenses are known as from \"trafficking in fentanyl\" to \"trafficking in dangerous fentanyl or fentanyl analogues\"; increasing the mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for specified offenses, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 95"
citation: "Florida HB 95 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-129"
primary_sponsors: ["Plakon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 57
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-09-13"
last_action: "2022-05-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/911f2e39-9758-4c3f-bc03-43c03b24571a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/95/ByCategory"
source_hash: "41adb87023a23e668684deebc07219931d4b3f3fbf43baa55d12db2133c302fa"
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 95 (2022) — Controlled Substances

Controlled Substances; Revising the elements that constitute the capital offense of murder in the first degree; revising the elements that constitute the felony offense of murder in the third degree; prohibiting specified activities involving controlled substances within 1,000 feet of additional specified facilities; providing criminal penalties; renaming what the violation of specified offenses are known as from "trafficking in fentanyl" to "trafficking in dangerous fentanyl or fentanyl analogues"; increasing the mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for specified offenses, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-129.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 95 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/95/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 95 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/95/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 95 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/95/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 95 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/95/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Judiciary Committee) — **14–6** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Justice Appropriations Subcommittee) — **9–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **84–35** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **33–5** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee) — **14–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **75–38** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **30–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice and Public Safety Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Plakon — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-13** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-22** Referred to Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-22** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-22** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-22** Now in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
- **2021-10-14** Added to Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-10-21** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
- **2021-10-21** Reported out of Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
- **2021-10-21** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-10-21** CS Filed
- **2021-10-25** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-11-23** Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-12-01** Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-02** Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-12-02** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2022-01-11** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-01-13** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-13** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2022-01-13** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-01-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
- **2022-02-22** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** CS passed; YEAS 75, NAYS 38 `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-24** In Messages
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Received
- **2022-03-03** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 190
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) adopted (541410)
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 8 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-11** Added to Senate Message List
- **2022-03-11** Amendment 153643 Failed
- **2022-03-11** Amendment 922297 adopted
- **2022-03-11** Concurred in Senate amendment 541410 as amended
- **2022-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 84, NAYS 35 `passage`
- **2022-03-11** In returning messages
- **2022-03-11** Concurred in House amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) (922297)
- **2022-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 33 NAYS 5 -SJ 820, 821 `passage`
- **2022-03-11** In Messages
- **2022-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-05-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Chapter No. 2022-129

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/911f2e39-9758-4c3f-bc03-43c03b24571a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).