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Florida Medicaid expansion initiative delayed to 2028
Saying the state’s new limits on ballot initiatives were too great to immediately overcome, Florida Decides Healthcare announced Thursday that it is putting the brakes on efforts to get a proposed constitutional amendment on Medicaid expansion on the 2026 ballot and will aim for 2028, instead.
In an interview with the Florida Phoenix, organization Executive Director Mitch Emerson said the new law was passed to sabotage efforts to bring proposed constitutional amendments before voters. The Florida Legislature earlier this year passed HB 1205, which put in sweeping changes nearly immediately.
“As much as anything, it’s really about runway,” Emerson said, adding that the law changed the rules in the middle of the signature campaign effort.
Florida Decides Healthcare, the political entity created to place Medicaid expansion on the 2026 ballot, challenged many of the changes in federal court but an appeals court earlier this month lifted an injunction against one of the restrictions that prevented groups from using non-citizens to gather initiative petitions.
In an interview with the Florida Phoenix, organization Executive Director Mitch Emerson said the new law was passed to sabotage efforts to bring proposed constitutional amendments before voters. The Florida Legislature earlier this year passed HB 1205, which put in sweeping changes nearly immediately.
“As much as anything, it’s really about runway,” Emerson said, adding that the law changed the rules in the middle of the signature campaign effort.
Florida Decides Healthcare, the political entity created to place Medicaid expansion on the 2026 ballot, challenged many of the changes in federal court but an appeals court earlier this month lifted an injunction against one of the restrictions that prevented groups from using non-citizens to gather initiative petitions.
https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/25/push-to-expand-medicaid-in-florida-delayed-by-two-years/