Florida · House Bill 721 · 2025 Regular Session

Step-therapy Protocols

HB 721 Sponsored by Karen Gonzalez Pittman Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 19, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 26, 2025
  3. Passed the House  
  4. Passed the Senate  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Oct 1, 2025

What it does

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

Requires AHCA to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization; directs agency to include rate impacts resulting from act in certain rates that become effective on specified date.

Every action

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

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 HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration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

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.