Bill > S2502

Introduced Session

An act implementing the 2026-2027 General Appropriations Act; providing legislative intent; incorporating by reference certain calculations; amending s. 1001.451, F.S.; revising the services required to be provided by regional consortium service organizations under certain circumstances; revising the allocation that certain regional consortium service organizations are eligible to receive from the General Appropriations Act; requiring regional consortium service organizations to submit certain annual reports to the Department of Education; requiring the carry forward of certain unexpended funds; requiring each regional consortium service organization to provide quarterly financial reports to member districts; requiring member districts to designate fiscal agent districts for certain purposes; providing for compensation of fiscal agent districts; providing for certain personnel recommendations, policies, salary schedules, and job descriptions; authorizing the purchase or lease of property and facilities; providing for the distribution of certain revenues upon dissolution of a regional consortium service organization; revising authorized means of revenue generation; requiring the establishment of a fund balance for certain purposes; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; creating s. 1001.4511, F.S.; creating the Regional Consortia Service Organization Supplemental Services Program; authorizing the use of program funds for specified purposes; requiring each regional consortium service organization to annually report certain information to the Legislature; authorizing the carryforward of certain funds; creating s. 1009.635, F.S.; establishing the Rural Incentive for Professional Educators (RIPE) Program within the Department of Education for a specified purpose; providing eligibility requirements for the program; providing for student loan repayment assistance, up to a specified amount; requiring the department to verify certain participant information before disbursement of an award; specifying that the program is administered by the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the department; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules by a specified date; authorizing certain state university boards of trustees to accept a health care provider’s procurement methods and construction contracts under certain circumstances; authorizing the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University board of trustees to expend available reserves or carryforward certain balances for a specified purpose; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment to realign Medicaid funding for specified purposes, subject to certain limitations; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment to realign funding within the Florida Kidcare program appropriation categories or to increase budget authority for certain purposes; specifying the time period within which such budget amendment must be submitted; 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; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement specified programs and payments; requiring institutions participating in a specified workforce expansion and education program to provide quarterly reports to the agency; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment for a specified purpose; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement the Low Income Pool component of the Florida Managed Medical Assistance Demonstration up to a certain amount; requiring that the amendment include a signed attestation and acknowledgment for entities relating to the Low Income Pool; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement certain payments and specified programs; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement a certified expenditure program for emergency medical transportation services; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement the Disproportionate Share Hospital Program; requiring such amendment to include specified information; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement fee-for-service inpatient and outpatient supplemental payments for specialty hospitals; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority to support the Florida School-Based Services program; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to create the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Task Force for a certain purpose; requiring the task force to evaluate certain information and develop recommendations; providing for membership of the task force; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide staff support; authorizing staff from specified agencies to provide additional expertise; providing for meetings of the task force; providing that members of the task force serve without compensation but are entitled to reimbursement of travel expenses; requiring the task force to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; authorizing the Department of Children and Families to submit a budget amendment to realign funding within specified areas of the department based on implementation of the Guardianship Assistance Program; authorizing the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, and the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority to support certain refugee programs; 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; reenacting s. 393.066(2), F.S., relating to community services and treatment; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority of a managing entity to carry forward certain unexpended funds; specifying that nonqualified funds carried forward are not included in a cumulative cap on the percentage that may be carried forward; amending s. 409.9913, F.S.; requiring that core services funding be allocated as provided in the General Appropriations Act; requiring the Department of Children and Families to continue to collect certain data from community-based care lead agencies and to use a certain Tiered Funding Model; requiring community-based care lead agencies to submit certain data to the department; requiring the department to conduct certain ongoing performance monitoring; requiring the department to provide monthly status reports to the Governor and the Legislature; requiring the department to submit a final report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; amending s. 409.990, F.S.; requiring that certain funds held by a community-based care lead agency and carried forward be returned to the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to hold such funds in a separate account and report certain information to specified entities; providing for the reversion of such funds to the General Revenue Fund; 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; 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; authorizing the Department of Health to submit a budget amendment to increase budget authority for the department if additional federal revenues specific to COVID-19 relief funds become available; 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 related to the new 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 composed of specified members; providing the duties of the executive steering committee; requiring the establishment of specified working groups; providing the composition of such groups; providing requirements for such groups; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to contract for a certain assessment of the agency’s Medicaid management information system (MMIS); providing requirements for the assessment; requiring submission of the assessment to specified entities by a certain date; requiring the agency to develop a new time-phased implementation roadmap for the MMIS replacement based on the assessment; requiring the agency to submit the roadmap to specified entities by a certain 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 specifications for such contract; authorizing the issuance or renewal of certain inactive or partially inactive licenses to skilled nursing providers and requiring the extension of certificate-of-need validity periods under certain circumstances; providing for subsequent renewal periods of such inactive licenses and validity periods under certain circumstances; 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; authorizing the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to submit budget amendments to request funds from the Lump Sum-Home and Community-Based Waiver category for a specified purpose; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to submit budget amendments within a specified timeframe for a specified purpose; authorizing the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to submit a budget amendment, subject to Legislative Budget Commission approval, requesting certain authority for certain purposes relating to veterans’ nursing homes; 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; authorizing the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to expend certain funds and submit budget amendments, subject to certain approval, for the planning and construction of a new State Veterans’ Nursing Home and Adult Day Health Center in a specified county; authorizing the department to apply for a specified federal grant for the Collier County State Veterans’ Nursing Home; authorizing the Department of Elderly Affairs to submit a budget amendment requesting certain authority for an Adult Care Food Program or the Older Americans Act under certain circumstances; 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 that amounts owed by a certain county for such financial responsibilities 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; requiring the Department of Juvenile Justice to take certain actions; reenacting s. 27.40(1), (2)(a), (3)(a), (5), (6), and (7), F.S., relating to 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 of limitations on compensation for representation in criminal proceedings; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 908.1033, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year provisions authorizing local law enforcement agencies to apply to the State Board of Immigration Enforcement to provide bonus payments for certain certified correctional officers; amending s. 934.50, F.S.; creating the Drone as First Responder Grant Program within the Department of Law Enforcement; providing the purpose of the program; providing eligibility requirements; requiring the department to develop an application process and allocate funds on a first-come, first-served basis; requiring that grants be matched by local funds in a specified percentage; authorizing the department to waive the matching funds requirement for certain agencies; defining the term “first responder agency”; authorizing the department to adopt rules; authorizing emergency rulemaking; requiring the Department of Management Services, with the cooperation of certain agencies, 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; prohibiting an agency from transferring funds from a data processing category to another category other than another data processing category; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds appropriated in certain categories between departments for purposes of aligning amounts paid for risk management insurance and for human resources services purchased per statewide contract; 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 an increase in appropriation under certain circumstances; requiring that such amendments include specified information; requiring the Department of Financial Services to replace specified components of the Florida Accounting Information Resource Subsystem (FLAIR) and the Cash Management Subsystem (CMS) with a specified integrated enterprise system; prohibiting the Department of Financial Services from including certain components in the replacement of FLAIR and CMS; providing requirements for the Department of Financial Services related to replacing FLAIR and CMS; providing for the composition of an executive steering committee to oversee FLAIR and CMS replacement; providing requirements for the executive steering committee chair; providing duties and responsibilities of the executive steering committee; 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 that a specified transaction fee percentage for use of the online procurement system be collected for a specified fiscal year; amending s. 24.105, F.S.; specifying requirements for the adoption of rules of the Department of the Lottery, 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. 215.5586, F.S.; extending for 1 year the homeowner eligibility criteria for a hurricane mitigation grant from the My Safe Florida Home Program; providing that certain funds appropriated to the Department of Financial Services may be carried forward through a specified fiscal year; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds between departments to align the budget authority granted based on the estimated costs for data processing services for a specified fiscal year; limiting the auxiliary assessments that may be charged to state agencies related to contract management services provided to the Northwest Regional Data Center; reenacting and amending s. 284.51, F.S., relating to the electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment (eTMS) pilot program; extending for 1 year the expiration of the program; requiring the Department of Financial Services to continue its existing contract for the establishment of the eTMS pilot program for veterans and first responders; amending s. 717.123, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Financial Services to retain specified funds, not to exceed a certain amount; requiring that the funds be held in a separate account; requiring the department to make prompt payment of certain claims from the separate account; amending s. 215.18, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year certain authority to transfer funds from certain 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; amending s. 259.105, F.S.; requiring that proceeds from a specified trust fund be distributed as provided in the General Appropriations Act for a specified fiscal year; amending s. 376.91, F.S.; extending for 1 year the date by which the Department of Environmental Protection shall adopt statewide cleanup target levels for PFAS under certain circumstances; providing for future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; reenacting s. 376.3071(15)(g), F.S., relating to the Inland Protection Trust Fund; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; requiring the Department of Citrus to enter into agreements for specified purposes by a certain date; requiring the Department of Citrus to file certain information with the department’s Inspector General; reenacting s. 380.5105, F.S., relating to the Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to use specified funds to provide grants for a specified purpose; amending s. 403.890, F.S.; authorizing the use of revenues deposited into or appropriated to the Water Protection and Sustainability Program Trust Fund as provided in the General Appropriations Act; amending s. 375.041, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the requirement that funds for the Land Acquisition Trust Fund be appropriated in a specified manner; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to lease an existing facility and administer a specified program; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority for the National School Lunch Program; amending s. 288.80125, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year a requirement that the use of funds in the Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund be related to Hurricane Michael recovery; amending s. 339.135, F.S.; extending for 1 year the authority for the chair and vice chair of the Legislative Budget Commission to approve certain work program amendments under specified circumstances; authorizing the Department of Transportation to request a specified amount of budget authority to the extent necessary to advance or defer certain projects in the Work Program and align resources for a specified purpose; 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; creating s. 288.013, F.S.; providing legislative findings; creating the Office of Rural Prosperity within the Department of Commerce; requiring the Governor to appoint a director, subject to Senate confirmation; providing that the director reports to and serves at the pleasure of the secretary of the department; providing duties of the office; requiring the office to establish and staff a certain number of regional rural community liaison centers for a specified purpose; providing the powers and duties of the liaison centers; requiring coordination between certain entities; requiring the liaison centers to engage with the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI); requiring at least one staff member of a liaison center to attend the monthly REDI meetings in person or by means of electronic communication; requiring the director of the office to submit a report to the Administration Commission within the Executive Office of the Governor; specifying requirements for the report; requiring that the report also be submitted to the Legislature by a specified date and published on the office’s website; requiring the director of the office to attend the next Administration Commission meeting to present detailed information from the annual report; amending s. 288.001, F.S.; requiring the Florida Small Business Development Center Network to use certain funds appropriated for a specified purpose; authorizing the network to dedicate funds to facilitate certain events; creating s. 288.014, F.S.; providing legislative findings; requiring the Office of Rural Prosperity to administer the Renaissance Grants Program to provide block grants to eligible communities; requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to certify to the Office of Rural Prosperity certain information by a specified date; defining the term “growth-impeded”; requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to certify annually that a county remains growth-impeded until certain conditions are met; providing that a county is eligible to participate in the program for 1 additional year under certain circumstances; requiring participating counties to enter into an agreement with the Office of Rural Prosperity to receive a block grant; giving such counties certain authority; prohibiting the Office of Rural Prosperity from determining how such counties implement the block grant; requiring regional rural community liaison center staff to provide certain assistance; requiring participating counties to report certain information to the Office of Rural Prosperity; providing that a participating county receives a specified amount from funds appropriated to the program, or an equal share of the funds appropriated under certain circumstances; requiring participating counties to limit certain expenses; authorizing participating counties to supplement the block grant with other funding sources; requiring participating counties to hire and retain a renaissance coordinator; providing the responsibilities of the renaissance coordinator; requiring the regional rural community liaison center staff to provide assistance and training to the renaissance coordinator, upon request; requiring participating counties to design a certain plan; specifying requirements for such plan; requiring participating counties to develop intergovernmental agreements with certain entities to implement the plan; requiring the Auditor General to conduct an operational audit of each county’s grant activities; requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to submit a certain report to the Legislature; specifying requirements for the report; providing that funds appropriated from the program are not subject to reversion; creating s. 288.0175, F.S.; creating the Public Infrastructure Smart Technology Grant Program within the Office of Rural Prosperity; defining terms; requiring the office to contract with one or more smart technology lead organizations to administer the grant program for a specified purpose; providing the criteria for such contracts; requiring that a summary of projects funded by the grant program be included in the office’s annual report; amending s. 288.065, F.S.; establishing the Rural Community Development Revolving Loan Fund within the Office of Rural Prosperity, rather than the Department of Commerce; defining the term “unit of local government”; requiring the office to include in its annual report certain information about the Rural Community Development Revolving Loan Fund; providing for future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority for certain expenditures under certain circumstances; amending s. 282.201, F.S.; extending for 1 year the Division of Emergency Management’s exemption from the use of the state data center; 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; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; reenacting and amending s. 445.08, F.S., relating to the Florida Law Enforcement Recruitment Bonus Payment Program; extending the program for 1 year; authorizing the Department of Commerce to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority to support specified federal grant programs; 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”; 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; requiring state agencies to provide a list of positions that qualify for a certain 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 beginning for a specified fiscal year and annually thereafter; requiring agencies to notify the Department of Management Services, the Executive Office of the Governor, and the Legislature 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 for a specified fiscal year; 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 the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; specifying the type of travel which may be used with state employee travel funds for a specified fiscal year; providing exceptions; providing applicability; 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 construction; 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; authorizing state agencies to purchase vehicles from nonstate term contract vendors without prior approval from the Department of Management Services under certain circumstances; amending s. 11.52, F.S.; extending for 1 year certain state agency reporting requirements regarding implementation of legislation; 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 a requirement that certain entities include a specified inventory in their legislative budget requests; requiring that a specified percentage of funds appropriated for information technology projects be held in reserve and that general revenue funds not held in reserve be released; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration, Department of Children and Families, Department of Corrections, Department of Financial Services, Florida Gaming Control Commission, Department of Health, and Department of Revenue to submit a budget amendment to request release of funds; limiting the amount that may be requested; providing that release is contingent upon certain submissions; requiring entities receiving such funds to submit monthly project status reports to certain entities; providing requirements for such status reports; 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 for severability; providing for contingent retroactivity; providing effective dates.

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Laid on Table, refer to HB 5003 (on 02/20/2026)

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