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FL H0229
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/24/2025
Primary Sponsor
Health & Human Services Committee
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AI Summary
- Expands the definition of "health facility" to include private corporations (not just not-for-profit entities) and authorizes health facilities authorities to make mortgage or other secured/unsecured loans and refund or refinance outstanding bonds, obligations, and indebtedness for health facility projects
- Requires not-for-profit hospitals to provide 120 days' notice before closure, including newspaper publication every 30 days and certified letters to county commissioners, nearby municipalities, hospitals, emergency transport operators, physicians, urgent care facilities, assisted living/nursing facilities, and state legislators within a 75-mile radius
- Mandates closing not-for-profit hospitals hold three public meetings within a 75-mile radius before closure and release physicians from any contractual non-compete agreements that would prevent them from practicing at another hospital within 75 miles
- Denies ad valorem property tax exemptions to any not-for-profit hospital if a related hospital in Florida ceased operations during the tax year and closed its emergency department without opening an equivalent one within 120 days and 10 miles; the exemption may be reinstated once an equivalent emergency department becomes available
- Tax exemption amendments apply retroactively to January 1, 2025, and first apply to the 2025 tax roll; remaining provisions take effect July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Health Facilities
Last Action
Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 68 (Ch. 2025-179)
4/30/2025
Committee Referrals
Health And Human Services3/12/2025
Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee3/5/2025
Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee2/6/2025
Full Bill Text
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