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Florida Medicaid Expansion Delayed to 2028 Amid Legal Challenges
9/26/2025
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Story summary
- Florida Decides Healthcare's Medicaid expansion campaign delays its ballot push to 2028 due to state law H.B. 1205.
- The law tightens petition gathering for constitutional amendments, complicating the 2026 ballot.
- Florida Decides Healthcare challenges the law in federal court; a January trial is set.
- H.B. 1205 also imposes felony penalties for petition violations and bars non-residents from signature gathering.
