---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offenses Involving Fentanyl or Fentanyl Analogs"
description: "Offenses Involving Fentanyl or Fentanyl Analogs; Provides criminal penalties & mandatory minimum term of imprisonment if person sells, manufactures, or delivers, or possesses with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, specified substances or mixtures, & such substance or mixture has at least one specified attribute."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1359"
citation: "Florida HB 1359 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-26"
primary_sponsors: ["Abbott"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-02"
last_action: "2023-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1bdc8a3-4c77-4ce4-bc6a-96d0be79273a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1359/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6e16eb7650690932daefde96fcac35e05a40d4a7d0ea1d1cc9180f388bcbb143"
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 1359 (2023) — Offenses Involving Fentanyl or Fentanyl Analogs

Offenses Involving Fentanyl or Fentanyl Analogs; Provides criminal penalties & mandatory minimum term of imprisonment if person sells, manufactures, or delivers, or possesses with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, specified substances or mixtures, & such substance or mixture has at least one specified attribute.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-26.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1359 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1359/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1359 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1359/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1359 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1359/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1359 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1359/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Amendment(s) (Judiciary Committee) — **15–5** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Criminal Justice Subcommittee) — **14–3** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Justice Appropriations Subcommittee) — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abbott — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Amesty — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Fabricio — cosponsor (person)
- Fernandez-Barquin — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-02** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2023-03-09** Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-13** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2023-03-14** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-14** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-15** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-03-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-17** Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-21** Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-03-21** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2023-04-17** PCS added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2023-04-19** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2023-04-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-20** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-01** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-01** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 1226
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-01** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-01** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-02** Chapter No. 2023-26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1bdc8a3-4c77-4ce4-bc6a-96d0be79273a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).