No. HB 5207
Filed under Environment & Water.
Department of Management Services; Revises, creates, and repeals provisions relating to administrative health insurance assessments of state agencies; permanent tenants of Capitol Complex; Capitol Center projects, long-range planning, & parking spaces; certification of & state contracting for minority business enterprises; the Office of Supplier Development; participation of Florida-based small business enterprises in state procurement system; Florida Advisory Council on Small & Minority Business Development; Florida Minority Business Loan Mobilization Program; & disposition of specified proceeds used for law enforcement communication systems.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe state repeals its minority business enterprise program, including the specific race- and gender-based contracting goals for construction, commodities, and services. A new 'Florida-based small business enterprise' program replaces it, without those numeric goals.
Every state agency must now pay a monthly fee for each vacant, state-funded position, equal to the health insurance cost of filling it. Agencies more than 60 days late get the amount pulled by the state's Chief Financial Officer.
The state employee health plan no longer lets a doctor certify an excluded drug as medically necessary to get it covered anyway. The formulary review date also moves from 2020 to 2027.
Separately, the state drops its long-standing requirement to run an affirmative-action hiring program for full utilization of women and minorities in Selected Exempt Service jobs.
AIBeginning July 1, 2026, the Department of Management Services must charge every state agency a monthly assessment for each vacant, state-funded position, set at the cost of that position's individual health coverage. Partially federally funded vacancies pay a prorated share.
AIThe bill deletes the Legislature's findings on past discrimination and the numeric race- and gender-based contracting goals for construction, commodities, services, and engineering work. It repeals the certification statutes (ss. 287.0943, 287.09431, 287.0947), drops the 'minority business enterprise' definition from s. 287.012, and renames the Office of Supplier Diversity to the Office of Supplier Development, refocused on assisting Florida-based small businesses generally.
AIThe department is no longer required to run a program ensuring full utilization of women and minorities in Selected Exempt Service positions. That specific hiring mandate is deleted outright, with nothing put in its place.
AIState group health plan members lose the ability to get an excluded prescription drug covered simply because a physician, nurse, or physician assistant certifies it as medically necessary. Only drugs the department has specifically added to the covered list are paid for.
AIThe Governor, Cabinet, and Legislature become 'permanent tenants' of the Capitol Complex. Their office space and legislative parking assigned on or after January 1, 2026 cannot be reduced or reassigned without consent, and DMS needs a tenant's approval before scheduling any project affecting that tenant's space.
AIA scheduled July 1, 2026 sunset on the subsections governing the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System's cost-recovery fee and its distribution formula is removed, so that funding structure continues indefinitely instead of expiring.
AIThe Office of Supplier Development gains a new duty to create an electronic certification and recertification process specifically for veteran-owned small business enterprises, separate from the repealed minority-business certification system.
AIThe bill removes the Department of Management Services' duties to administer the Florida Minority Business Loan Mobilization Program, maintain a public list of participating lending institutions, and collaborate on developing and enhancing black business enterprises. The program itself remains in law.