---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIV Infection Prevention Drugs"
description: "HIV Infection Prevention Drugs; Authorizes licensed pharmacists to screen for HIV exposure & order & dispense HIV infection prevention drugs in accordance with written supervisory protocol; requires Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 159"
citation: "Florida HB 159 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-121"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin", "Trabulsy"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-10-12"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3723832-a3fb-4b27-a3a1-c0ab8087ff29"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/ByCategory"
source_hash: "076a291ecc68affd071576d1d5d56da7bd4b2f39749ce08aa1c9ade8520ab155"
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 159 (2024) — HIV Infection Prevention Drugs

HIV Infection Prevention Drugs; Authorizes licensed pharmacists to screen for HIV exposure & order & dispense HIV infection prevention drugs in accordance with written supervisory protocol; requires Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-121.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 159 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 159 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 159 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 159 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 159 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 159 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/159/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Trabulsy — primary (person)
- Amesty — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Driskell — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-12** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-30** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-02-01** Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-02** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-02-02** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-02** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-05** Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-05** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2024-02-15** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-15** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 150497 adopted
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** CS passed as amended; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-05** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1320
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Amendment(s) adopted (581084)
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** In Messages
- **2024-03-06** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-06** Amendment 581084 Concur
- **2024-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Chapter No. 2024-121

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3723832-a3fb-4b27-a3a1-c0ab8087ff29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).