Florida SB 374: Fair Repair of Agricultural Equipment

Bill Text

374 
Prescribing Authority 
2025-11-04T08:46:06Z 
Deleting the requirement that a supervising physician notify the Department of Health in writing of any delegation of prescribing authority to a physician assistant; deleting the requirement that a supervising physician’s name be included in the prescription issued by a physician assistant; revising requirements for the drug formulary for physician assistants; revising the drug formulary requirements for advanced practice registered nurses authorized to prescribe medications, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 374 

 By Senator Trumbull 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to prescribing authority; amending ss. 
 3 458.347 and 459.022, F.S.; deleting the requirement 
 4 that a supervising physician notify the Department of 
 5 Health in writing of any delegation of prescribing 
 6 authority to a physician assistant; deleting the 
 7 requirement that a supervising physician’s name be 
 8 included in the prescription issued by a physician 
 9 assistant; revising requirements for the drug 
 10 formulary for physician assistants; authorizing 
 11 certain physician assistants to render medical 
 12 services without physician supervision during a 
 13 declared state of emergency in counties covered by the 
 14 declaration; providing applicability; requiring that 
 15 such services rendered otherwise comply with laws and 
 16 rules applicable to physician assistants; amending s. 
 17 464.012, F.S.; revising the drug formulary 
 18 requirements for advanced practice registered nurses 
 19 authorized to prescribe medications; authorizing 
 20 certain advanced practice registered nurses to render 
 21 medical services without physician supervision during 
 22 a declared state of emergency in counties covered by 
 23 the declaration; providing applicability; requiring 
 24 that such services rendered otherwise comply with laws 
 25 and rules applicable to advanced practice registered 
 26 nurses; providing an effective date. 
 27 
 28 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 29 
 30 Section 1. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subsection (4) of 
 31 section 458.347, Florida Statutes, are amended, and paragraph 
 32 (l) is added to that subsection, to read: 
 33 458.347 Physician assistants.— 
 34 (4) PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.— 
 35 (e) A supervising physician may delegate to a fully 
 36 licensed physician assistant the authority to prescribe or 
 37 dispense any medication used in the supervising physician’s 
 38 practice unless such medication is listed on the formulary 
 39 created pursuant to paragraph (f). A fully licensed physician 
 40 assistant may only prescribe or dispense such medication only 
 41 under the following conditions circumstances: 
 42 1. A physician assistant must clearly identify to the 
 43 patient that he or she is a physician assistant. 
 44 2. The supervising physician must notify the department of 
 45 his or her intent to delegate, on a department-approved form, 
 46 before delegating such authority and of any change in 
 47 prescriptive privileges of the physician assistant. Authority to 
 48 dispense may be delegated only by a supervising physician who is 
 49 registered as a dispensing practitioner in compliance with s. 
 50 465.0276. 
 51 3. A fully licensed physician assistant may procure medical 
 52 devices and drugs unless the medication is listed on the 
 53 formulary created pursuant to paragraph (f). 
 54 4. The physician assistant must complete a minimum of 10 
 55 continuing medical education hours in the specialty practice in 
 56 which the physician assistant has prescriptive privileges with 
 57 each licensure renewal. Three of the 10 hours must consist of a 
 58 continuing education course on the safe and effective 
 59 prescribing of controlled substance medications which is offered 
 60 by a statewide professional association of physicians in this 
 61 state accredited to provide educational activities designated 
 62 for the American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition 
 63 Award Category 1 credit, designated by the American Academy of 
 64 Physician Assistants as a Category 1 credit, or designated by 
 65 the American Osteopathic Association as a Category 1-A credit. 
 66 5. The prescription may be in paper or electronic form but 
 67 must comply with ss. 456.0392(1) and 456.42(1) and chapter 499 
 68 and must contain the physician assistant’s name, address, and 
 69 telephone number and the name of each of his or her supervising 
 70 physicians. Unless it is a drug or drug sample dispensed by the 
 71 physician assistant, the prescription must be filled in a 
 72 pharmacy permitted under chapter 465 and must be dispensed in 
 73 that pharmacy by a pharmacist licensed under chapter 465. 
 74 6. The physician assistant must note the prescription or 
 75 dispensing of medication in t