Health Care Freedom Act; 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.
Disclosure of Estimated Ad Valorem Taxes; Defining the terms “listing platform” and “property”; requiring that certain property listings include estimated ad valorem taxes; requiring the Department of Revenue to maintain on its website a table of links to each county’s property appraiser’s homepage and tax estimator; requiring the department to develop a formula that may be used by listing platforms to calculate the estimated ad valorem taxes; requiring the department to annually develop a countywide aggregate average millage rate for each county for use by listing platforms, etc.
Trust Funds/Re-creation/Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/EOG; Re-creating Emergency Preparedness & Response Fund within EOG, Division of Emergency Management; abrogates provisions relating to termination of fund.
States of Emergency; Providing that a state of emergency renewed by the Governor expires within a specified timeframe; authorizing the Legislature to extend the state of emergency under specified circumstances; requiring the Governor to immediately issue a certain executive order or proclamation consistent with the Legislature’s concurrent resolution terminating a state of emergency; requiring the Auditor General to update quarterly a specified audit, rather than annually, etc.
Government Waste and Misconduct; Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, the Auditor General, and the Government Efficiency Task Force to prepare a specified report; requiring that the report include an investigation and evaluation of all state spending; creating the Working Floridians Tax Rebate Program within the Department of Commerce for a certain purpose; defining the term “waste”; granting certain state funds to people and households that received the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and meet certain criteria, etc.
HB 587 revises Florida's definition of "medical review committee" in statute 766.101 to clarify which organizations qualify under this legal term. It expands the list to include 12 specific types of committees, such as those from hospitals, professional societies, mental health facilities, the Department of Corrections, and health departments. The bill maintains existing confidentiality protections, ensuring committee proceedings and reports cannot be used as evidence in civil or disciplinary cases against healthcare providers. This change directly affects healthcare organizations and government entities that operate these committees, ensuring consistent application of peer review standards. The revision takes effect July 1, 2026.
Central Service Technician Services; Defining the terms “central service technician” and “health care practitioner”; requiring that licensed hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers employ or otherwise retain the services of a central service technician only if he or she meets specified criteria; requiring central service technicians to complete a specified number of continuing education hours annually as a condition of continued employment, etc.
Gender Identity Employment Practices; Specifies employment policy of this state relating to person's sex; prohibits employees & contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employers to use pronoun that does not correspond to employee's or contractor's sex; prohibits certain forms from offering specified options relating to applicant's sex; prohibits adverse personnel action on basis of gender ideology; provides administrative & civil remedies; provides reasonable attorney fees & costs; authorizes DMS to adopt rules; provides it is unlawful employment practice for certain employers to require certain training, instruction, or activity as condition of employment.
Respiratory Care Interstate Compact; Enacting the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact; requiring member states to meet certain requirements to join and participate in the compact; providing criteria that a respiratory therapist licensee must satisfy to practice under the compact; authorizing a certain licensing authority or government agency to establish the scope of practice for a licensee providing therapy in a remote state; authorizing member states to participate with other member states in joint investigations of licensees under certain circumstances; establishing the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact Commission, etc.
Marriage and Family Therapist Licensure by Endorsement; Requiring the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling to issue a license by endorsement to certain applicants, etc.
Taxation of First-time Buyers; Specifying that documentary stamp taxes do not apply to deeds, transfers, or conveyances of residential property to first-time homebuyers; defining the term “first-time homebuyer”; specifying that documentary stamp taxes do not apply to certain documents executed by a first-time homebuyer in connection with the purchase of a principal residence, etc.
Statewide Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Unit; Requires FDLE to establish & administer Statewide Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism Unit for specified purposes; provides requirements for establishing, administering, & funding such unit.
