No. SB 1122
Filed under Local Government.
Activities of Special Districts; Authorizing certain special districts meeting particular criteria to jointly enter into, participate in, establish, and control specified joint relationships or collaborations anywhere within the boundaries of either or all such special districts; establishing state action immunity; authorizing such districts to exercise such powers regardless of certain consequences, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDTwo or more special districts that operate as hospital districts may now jointly form any kind of venture together -- including a private, for-profit corporation -- anywhere within their combined boundaries.
Any party that joins one of these ventures, including a private company, gains state action immunity under Florida law and the State Constitution for that collaboration.
That immunity holds even if the venture's purpose or effect would otherwise violate state or federal antitrust law, so it cannot be challenged as anticompetitive on that basis.
This new authority overrides any other Florida law, general or special, that conflicts with it, including a district's own governing charter.
AITwo or more special districts operating as hospital districts may jointly form or join any kind of business entity together -- a venture, corporation, network, or facility that can be private and for-profit -- anywhere inside their combined boundaries.
AIImmunity is not limited to the hospital districts themselves. Any party that joins one of these collaborations with a district -- including a private company -- also gains state action immunity under Florida law and the State Constitution.
AIThe immunity applies no matter the collaboration's purpose or effect, and holds even where the arrangement would otherwise be found to violate state or federal antitrust law.
AIThis new authority takes priority over any other Florida law -- general or special -- that conflicts with it, including a hospital district's own governing charter or special act.