2025 Regular SessionFlorida Legislature

S0264: Step-therapy Protocols

Legislative Summary

Defining the term "serious mental illness"; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for the treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization under certain circumstances; directing the agency to include rate impacts resulting from the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.

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Bill History

1/15/2025
Filed
Senate
1/29/2025
Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Senate
2/10/2025
On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/18/25, 1:45 pm, 412 Knott Building
Senate
2/18/2025
Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
Senate
2/19/2025
Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Senate
3/4/2025
Introduced
Senate
5/3/2025
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
Senate

Roll Call Votes

Senate Health Policy
2/18/2025
9
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/15/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/15/202528.2 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter2/19/2025185.1 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter2/17/2025185.0 KB