Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 1605: Trust Funds/Comprehensive Health Care for Residents
Did not advance Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
- Did not advance
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
HB 1605 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Trust Funds/Comprehensive Health Care for Residents. Primary sponsor: Dotie Joseph (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee.
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.
Trust Funds/Comprehensive Health Care for Residents; Creates Florida Health Fund for Florida Health Plan; provides for administration of fund; provides for sources of funds & purpose; requires claims for health care services to be made to fund; provides for disbursement from fund; provides for accounts in fund; prohibits funds from being commingled with other moneys; requires necessary waivers, exemptions, agreements, & legislation to be obtained for federal payments for fund; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of fund; provides that Florida Health Plan's responsibility for providing health care is secondary to existing Federal Government programs if funding for these programs is not transferred to fund; requires collateral sources to pay to fund; provides duties of Florida Health Board relating to fund; provides applicability of Code of Ethics for Public Officers & Employees to employees & director of fund; provides duties of plan auditor relating to fund; provides appropriation. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dotie Joseph | Primary sponsor | Democratic | House | 108 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
- Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee
- Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Filed