Florida HB 1489: Kratom Products

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HB 1489 2026

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to medical debt protection and 2
comprehensive health care for residents; providing a 3
short title; creating s. 381.4011, F.S.; providing a 4
short title; providing purpose; providing 5
construction; providing definitions; requiring large 6
health care facilities to develop written financial 7
assistance policies; providing requirements for such 8
policies; providing procedures for determining 9
eligibility for financial assistance; providing 10
eligibility criteria; providing publication and notice 11
requirements relating to financial assistance 12
policies; providing requirements for translations for 13
notices relating to such policies; providing billing 14
and collections rules and prohibitions; providing 15
requirements for price information; providing 16
liability for medical debt; providing requirements for 17
itemized bills; prohibiting information relating to 18
medical debt from being included in consumer reports, 19
communicated with and reported to consumer reporting 20
agencies, and used for certain decisions; prohibiting 21
medical creditors and medical debt collectors from 22
engaging in certain acts during health insurance 23
appeals; limiting interest on medical debt under 24
certain circumstances; providing applicability; 25

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requiring written copies of payment plans under 26
certain circumstances; providing requirements before 27
payment plans may be declared terminated; requiring 28
receipts of payment; providing violations; providing 29
private remedies for patients; prohibiting waivers of 30
patients' rights; providing for enforcement and 31
complaint process; providing reporting requirements; 32
requiring the Office of the Attorney General to post 33
certain information in a database and publish an 34
annual consolidated report; providing severability; 35
creating part IV of ch. 641, F.S., entitled the 36
"Florida Health Plan"; creating s. 641.71, F.S.; 37
providing a short title; creating s. 641.72, F.S.; 38
creating the Florida Health Plan; providing purpose of 39
the plan; creating s. 641.73, F.S.; providing 40
definitions; creating s. 641.74, F.S.; providing 41
eligibility for and coverage of the plan; authorizing 42
the Florida Health Board to establish financial 43
arrangements with other states and foreign countries 44
under certain circumstances; providing duties of the 45
board relating to plan enrollment; providing 46
enrollment requirements; creating s. 641.755, F.S.; 47
authorizing plan enrollees to choose certain health 48
care providers; providing covered health care 49
benefits; authorizing the board to expand health care 50

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benefits under certain circumstances; providing health 51
care services that are excluded from the plan; 52
requiring enrollees to have primary care providers and 53
access to care coordination; authorizing enrollees to 54
see health care specialists without referral; 55
authorizing the board to establish a computerized 56
registry; authorizing the plan to assist enrollees in 57
choosing primary care providers; prohibiting cost-58
sharing requirements from being imposed on enrollees; 59
creating s. 641.77, F.S.; requiring the board to 60
secure repeals and waivers of certain provisions of 61
federal law; requiring the Department of Health and 62
the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide 63
assistance to the board; requiring the board to adopt 64
rules under certain circumstances; providing that the 65
plan's responsibility for providing health care is 66
secondary to existing federal programs under certain 67
circumstances; creating s. 641.78, F.S.; defining the 68
term "collateral source"; requiring the plan to 69
collect health care costs from collateral sources 70
under certain circumstances; requiring the board to 71
negotiate waivers, seek federal legislation, and make 72
arrangements to incorporate collateral sources into 73
the plan; requiring plan enrollees to notify health 74
care providers of collateral sources and health care 75

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providers to forward such information to the board; 76
authorizing the board to take appropriate actions to 77
recover reimbursement from collateral sources; 78
requiring collateral sources to pay for health care 79
services under certain circumstances; providing 80
specified authority and rights to the board