Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida H1229: Residential Homes for Medically or Technologically Dependent Children
Status: Failed, March 13, 2026
Provides licensure & application requirements; requires AHCA to require certain background screening for certain persons; requires access to medically complex children's home at reasonable times for certain persons; requires agency to issue provisional license to newly licensed provider for specified timeframe; authorizes agency to issue conditional license for specified timeframe to licensed provider for specified reasons; requires agency to conduct inspections; provides rulemaking authority, procedures, & requirements; provides eligibility requirements to qualify for admission to medically complex children's home; provides uniform firesafety standards, emergency preparedness requirements, & construction standards; provides for denial, suspension, & revocation of license; provides for administrative fines.
What the bill says
An act relating to residential homes for medically or technologically dependent children; creating part XII of ch. 400, F.S., entitled "Medically Complex Children's Homes"; creating s. 400.9991, F.S.; providing legislative intent; creating s. 400.9992, F.S.; defining the terms "agency" and "medically complex children's home"; creating s. 400.9993, F.S.; providing licensure requirements; creating s. 400.9994, F.S.; providing application requirements; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to require certain background screening for certain persons…
From the introduced text, February 13, 2026:
An act relating to residential homes for medically or technologically dependent children; creating part XII of ch. 400, F.S., entitled "Medically Complex Children's Homes"; creating s. 400.9991, F.S.; providing legislative intent; creating s. 400.9992, F.S.; defining the terms "agency" and "medically complex children's home"; creating s. 400.9993, F.S.; providing licensure requirements; creating s. 400.9994, F.S.; providing application requirements; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to require certain background screening for certain persons; requiring access to a medically complex children's home at reasonable times for certain persons; requiring the agency to issue a provisional license to a newly licensed provider for a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; requiring issuance of a standard license to a provisionally licensed provider under certain circumstances; authorizing the agency to issue a conditional license for a specified timeframe to a licensed provider for specified reasons; requiring the agency to conduct inspections; creating s. 400.9995, F.S.; providing rulemaking authority and requirements; creating s. 400.9996, F.S.; providing eligibility requirements for CS/HB 1229 2026 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. hb1229-01-c1 Page 2 of FLORIDAHOUSEOFREPRESENTATIVES admission to a medically complex children's home; creating s. 400.9997, F.S.; providing uniform firesafety standards, emergency preparedness requirements, and construction standards; creating s. 400.9998, F.S.; providing for the denial, suspension, and revocation of a license; providing for administrative fines; amending …