No. SB 1556
Filed under Healthcare.
Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund/Department of Health; Creating the Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund within the Department of Health for specified purposes; authorizing licensed experimental treatment centers to contribute a specified amount to the trust fund or provide specified care at no cost; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe bill creates the Experimental Treatment Access Trust Fund inside the Department of Health, letting the Legislature appropriate money to help Florida residents cover travel expenses or partial costs of experimental treatment.
Licensed experimental treatment centers can choose to pay into the fund -- 2 percent of net annual profits from experimental treatments -- or instead give free experimental care of an equivalent value the department will define by rule.
Neither the contribution nor the Legislature's spending from the fund is mandatory, so the fund could exist without ever collecting or distributing money. It automatically ends July 1, 2030 unless the Legislature extends or re-creates it sooner.
None of this takes effect unless a separate, related bill also passes and becomes law in the same legislative session -- the bill's own text leaves that companion bill's number blank.
AIEstablishes a new trust fund in the state treasury from which the Legislature may appropriate money to help Florida-resident patients cover travel expenses or partial costs of getting experimental treatment.
AIEach licensed experimental treatment center may contribute 2 percent of its net annual profits from experimental treatments into the trust fund, though nothing requires it to do so.
AIAs an alternative to a cash contribution, a center may provide free experimental treatment care worth an equivalent amount, with that equivalence to be defined later by department rule.
AIThe trust fund is set to terminate on July 1, 2030 unless the Legislature ends it sooner or re-creates it, and it must undergo the standard trust-fund review process before that date.