---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drug-related Overdose Prevention"
description: "Drug-related Overdose Prevention; Revising the purpose of specified provisions relating to the prescribing, ordering, and dispensing of emergency opioid antagonists to certain persons by authorized health care practitioners; providing certain authorized persons immunity from civil or criminal liability for administering emergency opioid antagonists under certain circumstances; revising requirements for a certain health awareness campaign; requiring hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers to report incidents involving a suspected or actual overdose to the Department of Health under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 544"
citation: "Florida SB 544 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-28"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Boyd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-10-19"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72bc2ec5-4ebf-4e01-bb31-5db8a0e222a2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/544/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c21992c0c7b38acca8aa2820f1db150060430a5f35702eda29f54dde22dd7e7d"
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 544 (2022) — Drug-related Overdose Prevention

Drug-related Overdose Prevention; Revising the purpose of specified provisions relating to the prescribing, ordering, and dispensing of emergency opioid antagonists to certain persons by authorized health care practitioners; providing certain authorized persons immunity from civil or criminal liability for administering emergency opioid antagonists under certain circumstances; revising requirements for a certain health awareness campaign; requiring hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers to report incidents involving a suspected or actual overdose to the Department of Health under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-28.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 544 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/544/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 544 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/544/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 544 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/544/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 544 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/544/BillText/e2/HTML)
5. **S 544 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/544/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- Rouson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-19** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/02/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-12-02** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-02** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/19/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-19** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-21** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/27/22, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-27** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-31** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
- **2022-02-02** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Amendment(s) adopted (703254)
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-03** In Messages
- **2022-02-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
- **2022-02-17** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-02-22** Substituted for CS/HB 731
- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Amendment 108283 adopted
- **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 as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-24** In returning messages
- **2022-03-08** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (108283)
- **2022-03-08** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-28

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72bc2ec5-4ebf-4e01-bb31-5db8a0e222a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).