republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-259.md

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Bill	Special Observances	Special Observances; Designates August 21 of each year as "Fentanyl Awareness & Education Day"; encourages specified entities & public schools to sponsor events to promote awareness of dangers of fentanyl & potential overdoses, including education on specified topics.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	HB 259	Florida HB 259 (2025)	bill	commercial relations	enacted	2025-91	Gerwig	2	40	3	2025-01-27	2025-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/41fd6ac6-efb2-45db-b7b9-6326f5af09bc	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/259/ByCategory	c6ea532580f2eca3265d7408a8854f27d8d7b28e5fde8002f13901471e2ecb69	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 259 (2025) — Special Observances

Special Observances; Designates August 21 of each year as "Fentanyl Awareness & Education Day"; encourages specified entities & public schools to sponsor events to promote awareness of dangers of fentanyl & potential overdoses, including education on specified topics.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-91.

Version chain

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

1. H 259 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 259 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 106–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 23–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gerwig — primary (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Black — cosponsor (person)
• Cross — cosponsor (person)
• Grow — cosponsor (person)
• Kincart Jonsson — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Maggard — cosponsor (person)
• Partington — cosponsor (person)
• Tant — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Woodson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-27 Filed filing
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Human Services Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Now in Human Services Subcommittee
• 2025-02-28 Added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-03-04 Favorable by Human Services Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 Now in Government Operations Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2025-03-07 Added to Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-03-11 Favorable by Government Operations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Reported out of Government Operations Subcommittee
• 2025-03-11 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2025-03-20 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2025-03-24 Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-24 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2025-03-24 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2025-03-24 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2025-03-27 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/3/2025)
• 2025-04-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-03 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-03 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-03 Passed; YEAS 106, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-03 In Messages
• 2025-04-07 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Received enrolled
• 2025-04-16 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/21/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-04-21 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-22 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-22 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25
• 2025-04-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-24 Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-24 In Messages
• 2025-04-24 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-23 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-23 Chapter No. 2025-91

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41fd6ac6-efb2-45db-b7b9-6326f5af09bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).