Bill > S0782

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Health Care Freedom Act; providing a short title; repealing ss. 286.31, 286.311, and 381.00321, F.S., relating to the prohibited use of state funds for travel to another state for purpose of abortion services, the prohibited use of state funds for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures, and the right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors, respectively; creating s. 381.027, F.S.; providing a short title; defining terms; requiring a covered entity to, by a specified date, adopt a policy relating to providing written notice of a complete list of its refused services to patients; specifying requirements for such notice; requiring a covered entity to submit a complete list of its refused services to the Department of Health by a specified date; requiring a covered entity to notify the department within a specified timeframe after a change is made to such list; requiring a covered entity to submit the list, along with its application, if applying for certain state grants or contracts; providing a civil penalty; requiring the department to adopt rules; requiring the department to publish and maintain on its website a current list of covered entities and their refused services by a specified date; requiring the department to develop and administer a certain public education and awareness program; providing construction; providing for severability; amending s. 381.96, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “eligible client” and redefining the term “pregnancy and parenting support services” as “pregnancy support services”; revising department duties and contract requirements to conform to changes made by the act; amending s. 390.011, F.S.; deleting the definition of the term “fatal fetal abnormality”; amending s. 390.0111, F.S.; revising the timeframe in which a physician may perform a termination of pregnancy; revising exceptions; deleting the prohibition against the use of telehealth to perform abortions, the requirement that medications intended for use in a medical abortion be dispensed in person by a physician, and the prohibition against dispensing such medication through the United States Postal Service or any other courier or shipping service; amending s. 390.012, F.S.; revising rules the Agency for Health Care Administration may develop and enforce to regulate abortion clinics; repealing s. 395.3027, F.S., relating to patient immigration status data collection in hospitals; amending s. 409.905, F.S.; defining the terms “gender identity” and “transgender individual”; requiring the agency to provide Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary treatment for or related to gender dysphoria or a comparable or equivalent diagnosis; prohibiting the agency from discriminating in its reimbursement on the basis of a recipient’s gender identity or that the recipient is a transgender individual; amending s. 456.001, F.S.; deleting the definition of the terms “sex” and “sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures”; amending s. 456.47, F.S.; deleting the prohibition against the use of telehealth to perform abortions, including medical abortions; repealing ss. 456.52 and 766.318, F.S., relating to sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures and civil liability for provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures to minors, respectively; amending ss. 61.517, 61.534, 409.908, 409.913, 456.074, and 636.0145, F.S.; conforming provisions and cross references to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Shev Jones (D)*, 

Introduced (on 01/13/2026)

Official Document