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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 283: Storage and Disposal of Prescription Drugs and Sharps

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 283 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Storage and Disposal of Prescription Drugs and Sharps. Primary sponsor: J.J. Grow (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
J.J. GrowPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse23

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  5. Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
  6. Referred to Budget Committee
  7. Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  8. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source