The Florida Senate

HB 1291: Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association

GENERAL BILL by Anderson

Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; Requires agency to recover full amount of medical assistance from neurological injury compensation association; provides and revising definitions; revises exclusiveness of remedy under Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; revises provisions relating to filing claims; revises items that are eligible for award providing compensation; requires compensation to be provided for certain actual expenses; requires compensation for costs of major medical health coverage; requires plan reimburse for certain payments made for services provided; exempts expenses for professional custodial care in certain circumstances; requires that, upon entry of final order for compensation; parents or legal guardians obtain private health insurance or submit application for Medicare program; requires director to maintain plan of operation; requires certain assessments to be paid into Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association at certain times for certain purposes; requires plan of operation include provision for fraud; removes obsolete provisions; revises provisions relating to actuarial valuation of plan; requires that association submit quarterly estimates; requires associations to state whether plan if actuarially sound; authoring transfer of funds to association from Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund if plan is not actuarially sound; requires association to require each entity to issue casualty insurance & pay annual assessment.

• Bill History
• Related Bills (1)
• Bill Text (1)
• Amendments (0)
• Analyses (1)
• Vote History (0)
• Citations (8)

Bill History

Date	Chamber	Action
1/8/2026	House	• Filed
1/13/2026	House	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
1/15/2026	House	• Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee • Referred to State Administration Budget Subcommittee • Referred to Commerce Committee • Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
1/27/2026	House	• Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
1/29/2026	House	• Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee • Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee • Now in State Administration Budget Subcommittee

Related Bills

Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
S 1668	Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association	Burton	Similar	Last Action: 1/28/2026 S Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Bill Text

Version	Posted	Format
H 1291 Filed	1/8/2026 2:41 PM	PDF

Committee Amendments

No Committee Amendments Available

Floor Amendments

No Floor Amendments Available

Bill Analyses

Type	Analysis	Author	Posted	Format
Bill Analysis	H 1291	Insurance & Banking Subcommittee (Post-Meeting)	1/29/2026 11:15 AM	PDF

Vote History - Committee

No Committee Vote History Available

Vote History - Floor

No Vote History Available

Citations - Statutes (8)

Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
409.910	Responsibility for payments on behalf of Medicaid-eligible persons when other parties are liable.	Page 3 (pdf)
766.302	Definitions; ss. 766.301-766.316.	Page 4 (pdf)
766.303	Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; exclusiveness of remedy.	Page 8 (pdf)
766.305	Filing of claims and responses; medical disciplinary review.	Page 9 (pdf)
766.309	Determination of claims; presumption; findings of administrative law judge binding on participants.	Page 11 (pdf)
766.31	Administrative law judge awards for birth-related neurological injuries; notice of award.	Page 11 (pdf)
766.314	Assessments; plan of operation.	Page 18 (pdf)
766.315	Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; board of directors; notice of meetings; report.	Page 36 (pdf)

Citations - Constitution (0)

No Constitutional citations.

Citations - Chapter Law (0)

No Chapter Law citations.