Florida Senate Bill 488

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in conjunction with the Department of Health, to establish the Food is Medicine Pilot Program to provide Medicaid coverage for purchases and deliveries of prescribed health-promoting foods under certain circumstances; requiring the agency, in conjunction with the department, to seek federal approval and waivers for the pilot program; requiring allocation of a portion of the pilot program implementation budget to a specified organization for the establishment of a specified center, etc.

Medicaid Coverage for Prescribed Foods for Disease Treatment and Prevention

Sen. Tina Polsky [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2024-01-09	Senate	Introduced
2023-11-28	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
2023-11-15	Senate	Filed

H253 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Select Committee on Health Innovation
H265 (Similar To) 2023-10-27 - Withdrawn prior to introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
409	90203		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/488
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/488/BillText/Filed/HTML