The Gov. Ron DeSantis administration may ask the Legislature for an additional $4 million to maintain a warehouse in Lakeland for the state’s Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program.

The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) seeks the support in its legislative budget request for Fiscal Year 2025-26. Florida law requires agencies to submit spending requests that can serve as a sneak peak of what the Governor will include in his recommended budget for the coming year.

Without the annual $4 million bump, “AHCA would be unable to implement the program as directed by the Legislature and no longer have the infrastructure required to support the Program,” the agency wrote in its budget request.

Florida was the first state to gain approval to import prescription drugs from

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