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FL HB 1491

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Trust Funds/Creation/Florida Health Plan

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Trust Funds/Creation/Florida Health Plan; Creates Florida Health Fund for Florida Health Plan; provides for administration of fund; provides for sources of funds & purpose; requires claims for health care services to be made to fund; provides for disbursement from fund; provides for accounts in fund; requires moneys received by fund to be paid to specified person; prohibits such person from commingling funds with other moneys; requires necessary waivers, exemptions, agreements, & legislation to be obtained for federal payments for fund; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of fund; provides eligibility of certain retirees for plan; provides that Florida Health Plan's responsibility for providing health care is secondary to existing federal programs if funding for these programs is not transferred to fund; requires collateral sources to pay certain sum to fund; provides duties of Florida Health Board relating to fund; provides duties of plan auditor relating to fund; provides appropriation; provides applicability of Code of Ethics for Public Officers & Employees to employees & director of fund.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Josephprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-09

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2026-01-13

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

    filing,reading-1

  3. 2026-01-15

    Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-01-15

    Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  5. 2026-01-15

    Referred to Health & Human Services Committee

    referral-committee

  6. 2026-01-15

    Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

  7. 2026-03-13

    Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1491/ByCategory

Attribution

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