No. HB 1385
Filed under Healthcare.
Trust Funds/Creation/Experimental Treatments for Terminal Conditions and Life-threatening Rare Diseases; Creates Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund for specified purposes; authorizes licensed experimental treatment centers to contribute specified amount to trust fund or provide specified care at no cost; provides for termination of trust fund.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA new Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund would help Florida residents with the cost of traveling for experimental treatment, or with part of the treatment's cost, but only if the Legislature chooses to put money into it.
Licensed experimental treatment centers can voluntarily give 2 percent of their profits to the fund, or instead give free treatment of about the same value. Nothing requires them to contribute at all.
The fund is built to expire on July 1, 2030, unless lawmakers end it sooner or extend it, and must be formally reviewed before that shutdown date.
None of this becomes law on its own: the whole act only takes effect if a separate bill, HB 1381 or similar legislation, also passes this session and is signed into law.
AIA new trust fund is created within the Department of Health so the Legislature can appropriate money to help Florida-resident patients cover travel costs to get experimental treatment, or part of the treatment's cost.
AIA licensed experimental treatment center is not required to contribute anything, but it may choose to give 2 percent of its net annual profits to the fund, or provide free experimental treatment care of an equivalent value instead.
AINone of this section takes effect on its own. The whole act is conditioned on HB 1381, or similar legislation, also becoming law in the same legislative session or an extension of it.
AIFollowing Florida's standard constitutional rule for trust funds, this one is set to terminate on July 1, 2030, and must be reviewed before then, unless the Legislature acts to keep it going.