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Introduced
04/02/2025
04/02/2025
In Committee
04/02/2025
04/02/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
06/16/2025
06/16/2025
Introduced Session
2025 Regular Session
Bill Summary
An act relating to implementing the 2025-2026 General Appropriations Act; providing legislative intent; incorporating by reference certain calculations; providing an expiration date; amending s. 1011.45, F.S.; requiring a carry forward spending plan to commit certain excess reserve balances to specified projects in a specified manner; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Health, to submit a budget amendment to realign funding for specified purposes; specifying requirements for such realignment; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Health to each submit a budget amendment to realign funding within the Florida Kidcare program appropriation categories and to increase budget authority for certain purposes; specifying the time period within which each budget amendment must be submitted; providing an expiration date; amending s. 381.986, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the exemption of certain rules pertaining to the medical use of marijuana from certain rulemaking requirements; amending s. 14(1), ch. 2017-232, Laws of Florida; exempting certain rules pertaining to medical marijuana adopted to replace emergency rules from specified rulemaking requirements; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified law; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments seeking additional spending authority to implement specified programs and payments; providing an expiration date; amending s. 408.07, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "teaching hospital"; providing for future expiration and reversion; amending s. 409.901, F.S.; providing definitions; providing an expiration date; amending s. 409.908, F.S.; providing requirements for a teaching hospital's participation in certain programs; defining the term "teaching hospital"; providing an expiration date; amending s. 409.910, F.S.; conforming a cross- reference; providing for future expiration and reversion; prohibiting certain hospitals from participating in the Low Income Pool Program; providing an expiration date; amending s. 393.066, F.S.; removing a requirement that contracted entities must use a specified management system as a condition of payment and before billing; authorizing such entities to maintain an alternate data system that meets specified standards; prohibiting the Agency for Persons with Disabilities from requiring training on a specified system in certain circumstances; providing for future expiration and reversion; requiring the Department of Children and Families to submit quarterly reports to the Executive Office of the Governor and the Legislature; authorizing the Department of Children and Families to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority to support specified federal grant programs; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Department of Health to submit a budget amendment to increase budget authority for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Child Care Food Program if a certain condition is met; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Department of Health to submit a budget amendment to increase budget authority for the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Program if a certain condition is met; providing an expiration date; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to replace the Florida Medicaid Management Information System (FMMIS) and fiscal agent operations with a specified new system; specifying items that may not be included in the new system; providing directives to the Agency for Health Care Administration relating to the new system, the Florida Health Care Connection (FX) system; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to meet certain requirements in replacing FMMIS and the current Medicaid fiscal agent; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to implement a specified program governance structure that includes an executive steering committee; providing procedures for use by the executive steering committee; providing responsibilities of the executive steering committee; requiring the establishment of a state agency stakeholder working group; providing composition of such group; providing requirements for such group; providing an expiration date; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Health, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Department of Children and Families, and the Department of Corrections, to competitively procure a contract with a vendor to negotiate prices for certain prescribed drugs and biological products; providing requirements for such contract; authorizing the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to submit budget amendments to transfer funding from the Salaries and Benefits appropriation categories for a specified purpose; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to submit a budget amendment for a specified purpose; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Department of Veterans' Affairs to submit a budget amendment, subject to Legislative Budget Commission approval, requesting certain authority; providing an expiration date; amending s. 409.915, F.S.; extending for 1 year the expiration of an exception for certain funds used for the hospital directed payment program; amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; extending for 1 year the expiration of an authorization to carry forward certain unexpended funds; providing construction; amending s. 216.262, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority of the Department of Corrections to submit a budget amendment for additional positions and appropriations under certain circumstances; amending s. 215.18, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority and related repayment requirements for temporary trust fund loans to the state court system which are sufficient to meet the system's appropriation; requiring the Department of Juvenile Justice to review county juvenile detention payments to determine whether a county has met specified financial responsibilities; requiring amounts owed by the county for such financial responsibilities to be deducted from certain county funds; requiring the Department of Revenue to transfer withheld funds to a specified trust fund; requiring the Department of Revenue to ensure that such reductions in amounts distributed do not reduce distributions below amounts necessary for certain payments due on bonds and to comply with bond covenants; requiring the Department of Revenue to notify the Department of Juvenile Justice if bond payment requirements mandate a reduction in deductions for amounts owed by a county; providing an expiration date; reenacting s. 27.40(1), (2)(a), (3)(a), (5), (6), and (7), F.S., relating to court-appointed counsel; extending for 1 fiscal year provisions governing the appointment of court-appointed counsel; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; reenacting and amending s. 27.5304, F.S., relating to the extension for 1 fiscal year limitations on compensation for representation in criminal proceedings; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; requiring the Department of Management Services to use tenant broker services to renegotiate or reprocure certain private lease agreements for office or storage space; requiring the Department of Management Services to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; providing an expiration date; prohibiting an agency from transferring funds from a data processing category to another category that is not a data processing category; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds between departments for purposes of aligning amounts paid for risk management insurance and for human resources services purchased per statewide contract; providing an expiration date; authorizing the Department of Management Services to use certain facility disposition funds from the Architects Incidental Trust Fund to pay for certain relocation expenses; authorizing the Department of Management Services to submit budget amendments for certain purposes related to the relocation; providing an expiration date; requiring the Department of Financial Services to replace specified components of the Florida Accounting Information Resource Subsystem (FLAIR) and the Cash Management Subsystem (CMS); specifying certain actions to be taken by the Department of Financial Services regarding FLAIR and CMS replacement; providing for the composition of an executive steering committee to oversee FLAIR and CMS replacement; prescribing duties and responsibilities of the executive steering committee; providing an expiration date; reenacting s. 282.709(3), F.S., relating to the state agency law enforcement radio system and interoperability network; providing for future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; authorizing state agencies and other eligible users of the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System to use the Department of Management Services contract to purchase equipment and services; requiring a specified transaction fee percentage for use of the online procurement system; providing an expiration date; amending s. 24.105, F.S.; specifying how the Department of the Lottery's rules are to be adopted, excluding certain rules for 1 fiscal year regarding the commission for lottery ticket sales; limiting additional retailer compensation in a specified manner; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 627.351, F.S.; extending for 1 year the specified authority of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; amending s. 110.116, F.S.; extending for 1 year the directive to the Department of Management Services to renew a specified contract; providing a maximum rate for auxiliary assessments charged to certain state agencies for contract management; providing an expiration date; amending s. 284.51, F.S.; extending for 1 year a certain pilot program on eTMS treatment; amending s. amending s. 215.18, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year certain authority to transfer funds from other trust funds in the State Treasury to other trust funds in certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to transfer designated proportions of the revenues deposited in the Land Acquisition Trust Fund within the department to land acquisition trust funds in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Department of State, and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission according to specified parameters and calculations; defining the term "department"; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to make transfers to land acquisition trust funds monthly; specifying the method of determining transfer amounts; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to advance funds from its land acquisition trust fund to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's land acquisition trust fund for specified purposes; providing an expiration date; reenacting s. 376.3071(15)(g), F.S., relating to the Inland Protection Trust Fund; exempting specified costs incurred by certain petroleum storage system owners or operators during a specified period from the prohibition against making payments in excess of amounts approved by the Department of Environmental Protection; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending ss. 376.3071 and 376.3072, F.S.; prohibiting certain deductibles and copays; prohibiting enforcement of certain monetary caps; requiring certain costs be absorbed at the expense of the Inland Protection Trust Fund; providing exceptions; providing an expiration date; creating the Local Government Water Supply Pilot Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection for a specified purpose; providing eligibility and requirements for such program; requiring the department to develop an application process; authorizing the department to adopt rules; providing an expiration date; reenacting s. 380.5105, F.S.; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 10, ch. 2022-272, Laws of Florida; extending the Hurricane Restoration Reimbursement Grant Program for 1 fiscal year; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to use specified funds to provide grants for a specified purpose; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to increase budget authority for specified program; providing an expiration date; amending s. 403.0673, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to dedicate certain funds for a specified project; providing an expiration date; amending s. 375.041, F.S.; requiring funds for the Land Acquisition Trust Fund to be appropriated in a specified manner; providing an expiration date; amending s. 288.80125, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year a requirement that funds in the Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund be related to Hurricane Michael recovery; reenacting s. 288.8013, F.S., relating to the Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc., Trust Fund; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 288.0655, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year a requirement that certain appropriated funds relating to the Rural Infrastructure Fund be distributed in a specified manner; authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority for certain expenditures; providing an expiration date; amending s. 282.201, F.S.; extending the Division of Emergency Management's exemption from the use of the state data center; amending s. 251.001, F.S.; providing that the Florida State Guard aircraft is assigned to a specified department for certain uses; requiring the Florida State Guard to sign a certain memorandum of understanding; providing an expiration date; amending s. 443.1113, F.S.; providing that certain improvements to the Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits Information System are subject to appropriation; revising the date a certain report from the Department of Commerce is required to be submitted; revising the report requirements; requiring the Department of Management Services to assess an administrative health insurance assessment on each state agency; providing the rate of such assessment; defining the term "state agency"; providing how a state agency shall remit certain funds; requiring the Department of Management Services to take certain actions in case of delinquencies; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to transfer funds under specified circumstances; providing an exception; requiring state agencies to provide a list of positions that qualify for such exception by a specified date and to update the list monthly thereafter; requiring state agencies to include the administrative health insurance assessment in their indirect cost plan; requiring agencies to notify the Department of Management Services regarding the approval of their updated indirect cost plans; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer budget authority between agencies in specified circumstances; providing that the annual salaries of the members of the Legislature be maintained at a specified level; providing an exception; reenacting s. 215.32(2)(b), F.S., relating to the authorization for transferring unappropriated cash balances from selected trust funds to the Budget Stabilization Fund and General Revenue Fund; providing for future expiration and reversion of specific statutory text; specifying the type of travel which may be used with state employee travel funds; requiring certain information be provided to the Department of Management Services; requiring such information be published in a specified manner; providing exceptions; providing an expiration date; providing a monetary cap on lodging costs for state employee travel to certain meetings organized or sponsored by a state agency or the judicial branch; authorizing employees to expend their own funds for lodging expenses that exceed the monetary caps; providing an expiration date; amending s. 216.181, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority of the Legislative Budget Commission to approve budget amendments for certain fixed capital outlay projects; amending s. 216.292, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the requirements for certain transfers; amending s. 11.52, F.S.; extending for 1 year certain state agency reporting requirements regarding implementation of legislation; requiring each state agency and the judicial branch to review reporting requirements and prepare a specified list; requiring such list be submitted to specified parties by a certain date; requiring the list include certain information; amending s. 216.013, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year an exception from certain planning requirements; amending s. 216.023, F.S.; extending for 1 year the a requirement that certain entities to include a specified inventory in their legislative budget request; providing that the use of state funds must be consistent with specified principles of individual freedom; providing conditions under which the veto of certain appropriations or proviso language in the General Appropriations Act voids language that implements such appropriation; providing for the continued operation of certain provisions notwithstanding a future repeal or expiration provided by the act; providing severability; providing for contingent retroactivity; providing effective dates.
AI Summary
This bill implements the 2025-2026 General Appropriations Act, providing a comprehensive framework for state budgeting and operational guidelines for the upcoming fiscal year. The bill covers a wide range of administrative and financial provisions across multiple state agencies, including budget amendments, program implementations, and various temporary authorizations. Key provisions include allowing agencies like the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments for specific programs, extending certain existing program authorizations, and establishing new pilot programs such as the Local Government Water Supply Pilot Grant Program. The bill also includes provisions for replacing key state information systems like the Florida Medicaid Management Information System and the Florida Accounting Information Resource Subsystem, with detailed governance structures for these replacement efforts. Additionally, the bill sets guidelines for state employee travel, establishes principles of individual freedom for state fund usage, and includes various technical and administrative adjustments to state agency operations. Many of the provisions have a built-in expiration date of July 1, 2026, ensuring periodic legislative review and potential modification of these temporary measures.
Sponsors (1)
Other Sponsors (1)
House Budget Committee (H)
Last Action
Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198), SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199) (on 04/09/2025)
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Document Type | Source Location |
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State Bill Page | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/5003 |
Analysis - Budget Committee (Post-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/5003/Analyses/h5003z1.BUC.PDF |
Analysis - Budget Committee (Post-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/5003/Analyses/h5003z.BUC.PDF |
Analysis - Budget Committee (Post-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/5003/Analyses/h5003.BUC.PDF |
BillText | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/5003/BillText/Filed/PDF |
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