Became law SENATE · SESSION 2026 · CHAPTER 2026-6

No. CS/SB 844

Sickle Cell Disease Care Management and Treatment Continuing Education

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Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Jones

FILED BY

Shevrin D. Jones — District 34, Democrat [search donations]

EFFECTIVE

7/1/2026

OFFICIAL RECORD

flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/844

Filed under Healthcare.

PROVIDED SUMMARY

Sickle Cell Disease Care Management and Treatment Continuing Education; Revising requirements for a continuing education course on prescribing controlled substances which health care practitioners are required to complete, etc.

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Plain English Summary

AI-GENERATED

Adds sickle cell disease pain treatment to the opioid-prescribing course.

Florida's mandatory course on prescribing controlled substances, required every two years for license renewal, must now also cover treating pain in patients with sickle cell disease, alongside its existing opioid-related topics.

The course still covers prescribing standards, alternatives, nonpharmacological therapies, emergency opioid antagonists, and addiction risk across all stages of acute pain treatment -- sickle cell pain management is added on top, not swapped in for anything else.

KEY PROVISIONS

§ 1 Opioid-prescribing course must now cover sickle cell pain treatment majors. 456.0301

AIAdds a sixth required topic to the mandatory controlled-substances prescribing course: the treatment of pain in patients with sickle cell disease, alongside the course's five existing required topics.

“the treatment of pain for patients with sickle cell disease” bill text, line 30 →

TIMELINE

3/30/2026

Chapter No. 2026-6

3/27/2026

Approved by Governor

3/18/2026

Signed by Officers and presented to Governor

3/17/2026

Ordered enrolled

3/11/2026

CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0

3/11/2026

Read 3rd time

3/11/2026

Added to Third Reading Calendar

3/11/2026

Read 2nd time

3/10/2026

Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)

3/10/2026

Added to Second Reading Calendar

3/10/2026

Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading

3/9/2026

1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)

3/9/2026

Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)

3/9/2026

Bill referred to House Calendar

2/25/2026

In Messages

2/25/2026

Immediately certified -SJ 437

2/25/2026

CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 -SJ 434

2/25/2026

Read 3rd time -SJ 434

2/25/2026

Read 2nd time -SJ 434

2/23/2026

Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/25/26

2/18/2026

CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time

2/18/2026

Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

2/18/2026

Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0

2/13/2026

On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building

2/13/2026

Now in Fiscal Policy

2/13/2026

Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

2/12/2026

CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0

2/9/2026

On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human...

2/3/2026

Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

2/2/2026

Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 11 NAYS 0

1/28/2026

On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/02/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building

1/13/2026

Introduced

12/16/2025

Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and...

12/10/2025

Filed

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STATUTES IT CHANGES

s. 456.0301

+12 / −1

STAFF ANALYSES

1/30/2026 2:26 PM

2/11/2026 3:18 PM

2/13/2026 5:13 PM

2/17/2026 1:18 PM

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