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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1227: Medicaid Enrollment for Permanently Disabled Individuals

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1227 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Medicaid Enrollment for Permanently Disabled Individuals. Primary sponsor: Chase Tramont (Republican), Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee, Health & Human Services Committee. It lists 10 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2514 (Ch. 2025-204).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Medicaid Enrollment for Permanently Disabled Individuals ; Requires that certain Medicaid-eligible persons who receive specified Medicaid-covered services & who are permanently disabled be presumed eligible for continued Medicaid coverage during redetermination processes; requires AHCA to continue to make payments for such services; requires certain persons to notify AHCA & DCF of certain changes in disability or economic status; authorizes DCF to conduct redetermination of eligibility; requires DCF to make notifications; requires AHCA to seek federal authorization to exempt certain persons from annual redetermination of eligibility; requires AHCA & DCF to develop specified process.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4 · Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Chase TramontPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse30
Health Care Facilities & Systems SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Health & Human Services CommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Robin BartlemanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse103
Yvette BenarrochCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse81
Gallop FranklinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse8
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Lauren MeloCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse82
Jim MooneyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse120
Alex RizoCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse112
Michelle SalzmanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1
Allison TantCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse9
Susan ValdésCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse64

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2514 (Ch. 2025-204)
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Received
  4. Referred to Appropriations
  5. In Messages
  6. CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
  7. Read 3rd time
  8. Added to Third Reading Calendar
  9. Placed on 3rd reading
  10. Read 2nd time
  11. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
  12. Added to Second Reading Calendar

Showing 12 most recent of 38 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source