Florida · House Bill 283 · 2025 Regular Session

Storage and Disposal of Prescription Drugs and Sharps

  1. Introduced Jan 28, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 6, 2025
  3. Passed the House  
  4. Passed the Senate  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Storage and Disposal of Prescription Drugs and Sharps; Requires DOH & DEP to conduct study of safe collection & proper disposal of sharps; requires departments to make specified assessment of use of sharps in home; establishes collection methods to be considered in conducting study; requires departments to submit specified report to Governor & Legislature by certain date; provides for appropriation; provides requirements for establishments that store, warehouse, or hold certain prescription drugs solely for purpose of destruction. APPROPRIATION: $200,000

Every action

8 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. HouseFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee · House Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  3. CommitteeReferred to Budget Committee · House Budget Committee
  4. CommitteeReferred to Health & Human Services Committee · House Health & Human Services Committee
  5. CommitteeNow in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee · House Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  6. House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  7. HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  8. CommitteeDied in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee · House Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.