Florida SB 782: Bollards Grant Program

Bill Text

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Health Care Freedom Act 
2025-12-08T06:06:22Z 
Citing this act as the “Health Care Freedom Act”; repealing provisions 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 the “Health Care Transparency and Accessibility Act”; 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, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 782 

 By Senator Jones 

 34-00668-26 2026782__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Health Care Freedom Act; 
 3 providing a short title; repealing ss. 286.31, 
 4 286.311, and 381.00321, F.S., relating to the 
 5 prohibited use of state funds for travel to another 
 6 state for purpose of abortion services, the prohibited 
 7 use of state funds for sex-reassignment prescriptions 
 8 or procedures, and the right of medical conscience of 
 9 health care providers and health care payors, 
 10 respectively; creating s. 381.027, F.S.; providing a 
 11 short title; defining terms; requiring a covered 
 12 entity to, by a specified date, adopt a policy 
 13 relating to providing written notice of a complete 
 14 list of its refused services to patients; specifying 
 15 requirements for such notice; requiring a covered 
 16 entity to submit a complete list of its refused 
 17 services to the Department of Health by a specified 
 18 date; requiring a covered entity to notify the 
 19 department within a specified timeframe after a change 
 20 is made to such list; requiring a covered entity to 
 21 submit the list, along with its application, if 
 22 applying for certain state grants or contracts; 
 23 providing a civil penalty; requiring the department to 
 24 adopt rules; requiring the department to publish and 
 25 maintain on its website a current list of covered 
 26 entities and their refused services by a specified 
 27 date; requiring the department to develop and 
 28 administer a certain public education and awareness 
 29 program; providing construction; providing for 
 30 severability; amending s. 381.96, F.S.; revising the 
 31 definition of the term “eligible client” and 
 32 redefining the term “pregnancy and parenting support 
 33 services” as “pregnancy support services”; revising 
 34 department duties and contract requirements to conform 
 35 to changes made by the act; amending s. 390.011, F.S.; 
 36 deleting the definition of the term “fatal fetal 
 37 abnormality”; amending s. 390.0111, F.S.; revising the 
 38 timeframe in which a physician may perform a 
 39 termination of pregnancy; revising exceptions; 
 40 deleting the prohibition against the use of telehealth 
 41 to perform abortions, the requirement that medications 
 42 intended for use in a medical abortion be dispensed in 
 43 person by a physician, and the prohibition against 
 44 dispensing such medication through the United States 
 45 Postal Service or any other courier or shipping 
 46 service; amending s. 390.012, F.S.; revising rules the 
 47 Agency for Health Care Administration may develop and 
 48 enforce to regulate abortion clinics; repealing s. 
 49 395.3027, F.S., relating to patient immigration status 
 50 data collection in hospitals; amending s. 409.905, 
 51 F.S.; defining the terms “gender identity” and 
 52 “transgender individual”; requiring the agency to 
 53 provide Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary 
 54 treatment for or related to gender dysphoria or a 
 55 comparable or equivalent diagnosis; prohibiting the 
 56 agency from discriminating in its reimbursement on the 
 57 basis of a recipient’s gender identity or that the 
 58 recipient is a transgender individual; amending s. 
 59 456.001, F.S.; deleting the definition of the terms 
 60 “sex” and “sex-reassignment prescriptions or 
 61 procedures”; amending s. 456.47, F.S.; deleting the 
 62 prohibition against the use of telehealth to perform 
 63 abortions, including medical abortions; repealing ss. 
 64 456.52 and 766.318, F.S., relating to sex-reassignment 
 65 prescriptions and procedures and civil liability for 
 66 provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or 
 67 procedures to minors, respectively; amending ss. 
 68 61.517, 61.534, 409.908, 409.913, 456.074, and 
 69 636.0145, F.S.; conforming provisions and cross 
 70 references to changes made by the act; providing an 
 71 effective date. 
 72 
 73 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 75 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Health Care 
 76 Freedom Act.” 
 77 Section 2. Section 286.31, Florida Statutes, is repealed. 
 78 Section 3. Section 286.311, Florida Statutes, is repealed. 
 79 Section 4. Section