Florida SB 1556: Nondiscrimination in Organ Transplants

Bill Text

1556 
Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund/Department of Health 
2026-01-09T03:27:37Z 
Creating the Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund within the Department of Health for specified purposes; authorizing licensed experimental treatment centers to contribute a specified amount to the trust fund or provide specified care at no cost; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1556 

 By Senator Burgess 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to trust funds; creating s. 499.02955, 
 3 F.S.; creating the Experimental Treatment Access Trust 
 4 Fund within the Department of Health for specified 
 5 purposes; authorizing licensed experimental treatment 
 6 centers to contribute a specified amount to the trust 
 7 fund or provide specified care at no cost; providing 
 8 for future review and termination or re-creation of 
 9 the trust fund; providing a contingent effective date. 
 10 
 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 12 
 13 Section 1. Section 499.02955, Florida Statutes, is created 
 14 to read: 
 15 499.02955 Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund.— 
 16 (1) There is created in the State Treasury the Experimental 
 17 Treatment Access Trust Fund within the Department of Health, 
 18 from which the Legislature may appropriate funds for the purpose 
 19 of assisting eligible patients who are residents of this state 
 20 with costs associated with travel to receive experimental 
 21 treatment or partial care costs under this section. 
 22 (2) Each licensed experimental treatment center may 
 23 contribute 2 percent of net annual profits from experimental 
 24 treatments to the Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund or 
 25 may provide at no cost experimental treatment care in an 
 26 equivalent amount as adopted by rule by the department. 
 27 (3) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State 
 28 Constitution, the trust fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be 
 29 terminated on July 1, 2030. Before its termination, the trust 
 30 fund shall be reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2). 
 31 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026, if SB 
 32 ___ or similar legislation is adopted in the same legislative 
 33 session or an extension thereof and becomes a law.