# Florida SB 2514: Health and Human Services

Florida SB 2514, Health and Human Services, is a 2025 Senate bill sponsored by Appropriations; status signed, last action 2025-07-03 (Chapter No. 2025-204, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198), SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Florida SB 2514
- State: Florida
- Session: 2025
- Title: Health and Human Services
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-03-28
- Last action: 2025-07-03, Chapter No. 2025-204, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198), SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199)
- Sponsor: Appropriations
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Appropriation, House Calendar
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 5 (305 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 14

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Medicaid care continues during eligibility reviews: benefit, medium. Medicaid eligibility and payments continue during reviews for qualifying people receiving institutional care, hospice, or covered home and community services. A major disability or financial change that ends eligibility also ends this protection and must be reported. The Department of Children and…
- Medicaid covers colorectal screening blood tests: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, Medicaid managed care plans must cover federally approved blood-based biomarker tests for colorectal cancer screening. Coverage must follow the scope and testing frequency in the federal National Coverage Determination. Separately, Florida’s Medicaid agency may pay for these…
- Extra Medicaid help with employer coverage: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Florida may give high-cost Medicaid recipients extra financial help with employer health coverage. The usual assistance limit equals the Medicaid premium otherwise paid to a managed care plan for that person. The agency may exceed that limit when it finds the extra assistanc…
- Families get clearer home care information: benefit, low. The Nursing Home Guide must prominently explain alternatives to nursing home care and list home and community-based programs. It must encourage people to contact the CARES Program to ask whether they qualify. Each program listing must explain its services, including whether nursing home care is cov…
- Dental students can seek loan help earlier: benefit, low. Dental and dental hygiene students can apply for the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program before starting work. They must show a job offer from a qualifying public health program or private practice. They cannot receive money until they meet the program’s eligibility requirements. The law changes…
- Protected feedback helps compare nursing homes: benefit, low. Florida must annually survey random samples of each nursing home’s long-stay and short-stay residents and their families. The surveys must use validated measures, protect identities, and produce combined online results that let people compare homes. Employees and volunteers of nursing homes and the…
- Nursing homes face stronger care oversight: benefit, low. By January 1, 2026, nursing home medical directors must hold an approved credential or be pursuing one under agency rules. Florida must list each director’s name on the facility’s online profile. Homes must conduct anonymous patient safety culture surveys at least every two years and report results…
- More providers qualify for training reimbursements: benefit, low. Publicly funded nonprofits serving Medicaid or other low-income patients in designated health professional shortage areas can qualify for TEACH reimbursements. Florida’s health agency must approve the organization. Reimbursement helps offset administrative costs or lost revenue from training studen…
- Florida providers gain research funding opportunities: benefit, low. Providers and facilities physically located in Florida and serving patients there count as Florida-based for the relevant cancer research program. This broadens which providers can meet that requirement. The law also creates the Bascom Palmer VisionGen Initiative for genetic and epigenetic research…
- Fewer existing doctor residencies qualify for funding: cost, low. Florida reduces the maximum number of qualifying existing physician residency positions eligible for support from 200 to 100. The agency may allocate $100,000 per year for each position. Positions must have existed before July 1, 2023, in a specialty or subspecialty with a statewide shortage. They…
- Cancer research groups face tighter eligibility: cost, low. Florida-based research consortia must have centralized leadership and National Cancer Institute designation to qualify as cancer centers. The law removes the former alternative for consortia prepared to achieve designation by June 30, 2024. Planning to obtain designation no longer satisfies that al…
- Nursing homes face repeated late-report fines: cost, low. Except for state-operated facilities, nursing homes and their home offices must file annual audited financial statements within 120 days after fiscal year-end. Beginning January 1, 2026, Florida must impose a $10,000 fine for each failure to file a required financial report on time. Every additiona…
- Medical marijuana registration faces offense restrictions: mixed, medium. Florida must revoke a patient’s or caregiver’s medical marijuana registration after a final disposition for specified controlled-substance offenses. This includes convictions and guilty or no-contest pleas, regardless of whether guilt is formally adjudicated. A person may apply for reinstatement af…
- Senior care providers face service-area limits: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Florida removes prior single-provider limits for the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. Multiple providers still need justification, and Florida may exclude already-served areas to prevent unnecessary duplication or financial harm. Where an existing provider has…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Appropriations

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-06-16 | Senate | Senate Floor Vote | pass | 34 | 0 |   |
| 2025-06-16 | House | House Floor Vote | pass | 105 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-09 | House | House Floor Vote | pass | 111 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-09 | Senate | Senate Floor Vote | pass | 37 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-02 | Senate | Appropriations Vote | pass | 18 | 0 |   |

## Actions (41)

- 2025-07-03: Chapter No. 2025-204, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198), SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199)
- 2025-06-30: Approved by Governor
- 2025-06-27: Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2025-06-16: Ordered engrossed, then enrolled (Senate)
- 2025-06-16: Passed as amended by Conference Committee Report; YEAS 105, NAYS 0 (House)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report adopted (House)
- 2025-06-16: Amendment 225196 adopted (House)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report considered (House)
- 2025-06-16: In Messages (House)
- 2025-06-16: Passed as amended by Conference Committee Report; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 -SJ 1245 (Senate)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report adopted (225196) -SJ 1245 (Senate)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report received -SJ 1235 (Senate)
- 2025-06-02: Conference Committee appointed: Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget: Hooper (Chair), Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government/Agriculture and Natural Resources: Brodeur (Chair), Arrington, Berman, Burton, Collins, DiCeglie, Grall, McClain, Pizzo, Rodriguez, Sharief, Truenow, Boyd (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government/State Administration: Brodeur (Chair), Arrington, Berman, Burton, Collins, DiCeglie, Grall, McClain, Pizzo, Rodriguez, Sharief, Truenow; Appropriations Conference Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice/Justice: Garcia (Chair), Ingoglia, Martin, Osgood, Polsky, Rouson, Simon, Wright, Yarborough, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Health and Human Services/Health Care: Trumbull (Chair), Berman, Brodeur, Burton, Davis, Garcia, Gruters, Harrell, Rodriguez, Rouson, Boyd (At Large), Passidomo (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Higher Education/Higher Education: Harrell (Chair), Bradley, Burgess, Calatayud, Davis, Leek, Smith, Trumbull, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education/PreK-12: Burgess (Chair), Bradley, Calatayud, Gaetz, Jones, Osgood, Pizzo, Simon, Yarborough, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development/Transportation and Economic Development: DiCeglie (Chair), Arrington, Avila, Bernard, Collins, Grall, Ingoglia, Leek, Martin, McClain, Polsky, Sharief, Smith, Truenow, Wright, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); (Senate)
- 2025-06-02: Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget) (Senate)
- 2025-06-02: Conference Committee appointed (House)
- 2025-06-02: Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget) (House)
- 2025-04-10: In returning messages (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Passed the Senate bill as amended by House and we accede to conference (House)
- 2025-04-09: Passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 (House)
- 2025-04-09: Read 3rd time (House)
- 2025-04-09: Added to Third Reading Calendar (House)
- 2025-04-09: Placed on 3rd reading (House)
- 2025-04-09: Amendment 951155 adopted (House)
- 2025-04-09: Read 2nd time (House)
- 2025-04-09: Read 1st time (House)
- 2025-04-09: Substituted for HB 5301 (House)
- 2025-04-09: Bill referred to House Calendar (House)
- 2025-04-09: In Messages (House)
- 2025-04-09: Immediately certified -SJ 370 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference -SJ 370 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 -SJ 370 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Read 3rd time -SJ 370 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Read 2nd time -SJ 369 (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25 (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Filed (Senate)
- 2025-04-02: Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-31: On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled (Senate)
- 2025-03-28: On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building (Senate)
- 2025-03-28: Submitted for consideration by Appropriations (Senate)

## Bill text

- er, 2025-07-01: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/er/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/er/PDF)
- e1, 2025-06-17: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/e1/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/e1/PDF)
- Filed, 2025-04-03: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/Filed/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/Filed/PDF)
- pb, 2025-03-28: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/pb/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/pb/PDF)

## Related bills

- HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs (vetoed)
- HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program (vetoed)
- HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death (vetoed)
- HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees (vetoed)
- HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates (vetoed)
- HB 5015: State Group Insurance (vetoed)

## Sources
- [er (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/er/HTML)
- [er (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/er/PDF)
- [e1 (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/e1/HTML)
- [e1 (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/e1/PDF)
- [Filed (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/Filed/HTML)
- [Filed (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/Filed/PDF)
- [pb (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/pb/HTML)
- [pb (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2514/BillText/pb/PDF)

## Related
- [HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1427-2025)
- [HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1095-2025)
- [HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB6017-2025)
- [HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1445-2025)
- [HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB11-2025)
- [HB 5015: State Group Insurance](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB5015-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-SB2514-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).