Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida S902: Department of Health
Status: Passed one chamber, March 12, 2026
Revising requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directors of medical marijuana treatment centers; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from being located within a specified distance of parks, child care facilities, or facilities providing early learning services; creating the Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the department; revising duties of the department in administering the Early Steps Program; authorizing a registered nurse to delegate the administration of certain controlled substances to a home health aide for medically fragile children under certain circumstances, etc.
What the bill says
An act relating to the Department of Health; amending s. 381.986, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "low-THC cannabis"; revising requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directors of medical marijuana treatment centers; deleting obsolete language; defining the term "park"; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from being located within a specified distance of parks, child care facilities, or facilities providing early learning services…
From the introduced text, February 25, 2026:
A bill to be entitled An act relating to the Department of Health; amending s. 381.986, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "low-THC cannabis"; revising requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directors of medical marijuana treatment centers; deleting obsolete language; defining the term "park"; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from being located within a specified distance of parks, child care facilities, or facilities providing early learning services; authorizing counties and municipalities to approve a dispensing facility within such distance under certain circumstances; providing that the subsequent establishment of any park, child care facility, early learning facility, or school after the approval of a medical marijuana treatment center's cultivating, processing, or dispensing facility does not affect the continued operation or location of the approved cultivating, processing, or dispensing facility; exempting cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities approved before a specified date from such distance requirements; creating s. 381.994, F.S.; creating the Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the department; providing the purpose of the program; requiring the program, subject to legislative appropriation, to award grants for certain purposes; specifying entities that are eligible to apply for grants under the program; allowing certain grant proposals to receive preference in the awarding of grants; requiring the department to award grants after consulting with the Rare Disease …