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Died HOUSE · SESSION 2026

No. HB 1533

Fees/Government-Facilitated Purchases and Sales of Individual and Small Employer Health and Dental Plans
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SPONSOR
Basabe
FILED BY
Fabián Basabe — District 106, Republican [search donations]
EFFECTIVE
This act shall take effect July 1, 2026, but only if HB 1531 or similar legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law.
DIED IN
Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

Filed under Insurance.

PROVIDED SUMMARY

Fees/Government-Facilitated Purchases and Sales of Individual and Small Employer Health and Dental Plans; Authorizes Florida Health Insurance Exchange to charge assessments & user fees to health carriers & generate funding for specified purpose; requires exchange to publish certain financial information on Internet website.

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Plain English Summary

AI-GENERATED
Lets the health insurance exchange charge carriers fees to fund itself.

Adds two new duties to the Florida Health Insurance Exchange created by a companion bill: authority to charge health carriers assessments or user fees, and a requirement to publish its costs, including money lost to waste, fraud, and abuse, on a public website.

The exchange gains express authority to charge health carriers assessments or user fees, or otherwise generate the funding it needs to support its own operations under this section.

Requires the exchange to publish, on a public website, the average costs of licensing, regulatory fees, and other required payments, plus its own administrative costs and any money lost to waste, fraud, or abuse.

KEY PROVISIONS
§ 1 Authorizes the exchange to charge carriers fees or assessments majors. 627.4463

AIThe Florida Health Insurance Exchange may charge health carriers assessments or user fees, or otherwise generate funding, to support its own operations, a new revenue authority the exchange did not previously have.

“The exchange may charge assessments or user fees to health carriers or otherwise may generate funding necessary to support the operations provided under this section.” bill text, line 20 →
§ 2 Requires publishing exchange costs, including waste, fraud, and abuse majors. 627.4463

AIThe exchange must publish on a website the average costs of licensing, regulatory fees, and other required payments, plus its administrative costs, and must include information on money lost to waste, fraud, and abuse.

“The exchange shall publish the average costs of licensing, regulatory fees, and any other payments required by the exchange” bill text, line 23 →
TIMELINE
3/13/2026
Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
1/15/2026
Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
1/15/2026
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
1/15/2026
Referred to State Administration Budget Subcommittee
1/15/2026
Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
1/15/2026
Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
1/13/2026
1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
1/9/2026
Filed
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STATUTES IT CHANGES
s. 627.4463
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