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Bill Text

1242 
Medical Marijuana Treatment Center Licensure 
2026-01-06T10:54:46Z 
Requiring the Department of Health to consider all deficiencies in an application for a medical marijuana treatment center license cured if the sole remaining deficiency is the fact that the application was submitted by an entity in legal partnership with a certain eligible recognized class member, or his or her heir, rather than by the class member or heir as an individual; prohibiting the department from using such fact as a reason to deny an application for licensure, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1242 

 By Senator Davis 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to medical marijuana treatment center 
 3 licensure; amending s. 11 of chapter 2024-246, Laws of 
 4 Florida; requiring the Department of Health to 
 5 consider all deficiencies in an application for a 
 6 medical marijuana treatment center license cured if 
 7 the sole remaining deficiency is the fact that the 
 8 application was submitted by an entity in legal 
 9 partnership with a certain eligible recognized class 
 10 member, or his or her heir, rather than by the class 
 11 member or heir as an individual; prohibiting the 
 12 department from using such fact as a reason to deny an 
 13 application for licensure; providing that such 
 14 applicants are deemed to have satisfied a specified 
 15 licensure requirement if certain conditions have been 
 16 met; requiring the department to issue a medical 
 17 marijuana treatment center license to such an entity 
 18 if all other applicable licensure requirements have 
 19 been met; requiring the department to issue such 
 20 licenses by a specified date; providing an effective 
 21 date. 
 22 
 23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 24 
 25 Section 1. Section 11 of chapter 2024-246, Laws of Florida, 
 26 is amended to read: 
 27 Section 11. (1) Effective upon this act becoming a law and 
 28 notwithstanding any provision of s. 381.986(8)(a)2.b., Florida 
 29 Statutes, to the contrary, the Department of Health must grant 
 30 an applicant 90 days to cure, pursuant to the errors and 
 31 omissions process established in department Form DH8035-OMMU 
 32 10/2021 as incorporated by the department in rule 64ER21-16, 
 33 Florida Administrative Code, any remaining deficiencies cited by 
 34 the department regarding the application if the applicant: 
 35 (a) Applied for a medical marijuana treatment center 
 36 license during the application window created by the department 
 37 to accept applications for licensure pursuant to s. 
 38 381.986(8)(a)2.b., Florida Statutes; and 
 39 (b) Has not been awarded a license, either from the initial 
 40 application process or through the cure process established in 
 41 section 2 of chapter 2023-292, Laws of Florida. 
 42 (2) If the applicant cures the deficiencies within the 90 
 43 day timeframe, the department must issue a medical marijuana 
 44 treatment center license to the applicant. 
 45 (3) For purposes of the cure process detailed in 
 46 subsections (1) and (2), the department must consider all 
 47 deficiencies with an applicant’s application to be cured if the 
 48 sole remaining deficiency cited is: 
 49 (a) A failure to meet the requirement in s. 
 50 381.986(8)(b)1., Florida Statutes; or 
 51 (b) The applicant died after March 25, 2022. In the case of 
 52 the death of an applicant under this paragraph, the department 
 53 must issue the license to the heirs of the applicant; or 
 54 (c) The application was submitted by an entity in legal 
 55 partnership with a recognized class member eligible for 
 56 licensure under s. 381.986(8)(a)2.b., Florida Statutes, or his 
 57 or her heir, rather than by the recognized class member or heir 
 58 as an individual. 
 59 (4) If an applicant who was alive as of February 1, 2024, 
 60 dies before the completion of the cure process detailed in 
 61 subsections (1) and (2), the death of the applicant may not be a 
 62 reason to deny the application during the cure process or any 
 63 resulting legal challenges. In such case, and in the event of a 
 64 successful cure or challenge, the department must issue the 
 65 license to the estate of the applicant. 
 66 (5) If an applicant was an entity in a legal partnership 
 67 with a recognized class member eligible for licensure under s. 
 68 381.986(8)(a)2.b., Florida Statutes, or his or her heir, the 
 69 fact that the recognized class member or his or her heir did not 
 70 submit the application as an individual may not be a reason to 
 71 deny the application. Such an applicant satisfies the 
 72 requirement of s. 381.986(8)(b)1., Florida Statutes, if the 
 73 entity in legal partnership with a recognized class member or 
 74 his or her heir had been registered to do business in this state 
 75 for 5 consecutive years before submitting the application. 
 76 Provided all other applic