Bill > H1457

Introduced Session

An act relating to aging and disability services; repealing s. 400.0067, F.S., relating to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council; amending s. 409.979, F.S.; revising requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to maintain a statewide preenrollment list for certain services; requiring aging and disability resource center personnel to place individuals on certain lists; requiring certain staff to administer rescreening under certain circumstances; amending s. 430.03, F.S.; revising the purposes of the Department of Elderly Affairs to include providing direct services to the elderly population under certain circumstances; amending s. 430.04, F.S.; revising the duties and responsibilities of the department to include designating area agencies on aging; creating s. 430.09, F.S.; providing requirements for area agencies on aging expenditures; prohibiting an administrative employee of an area agency on aging from receiving a specified salary amount; providing construction; amending s. 430.203, F.S.; revising and providing definitions; amending s. 430.204, F.S.; removing certain funding responsibilities of the department and certain entities; removing responsibility of provider agencies to collect and assess fees for certain services; amending s. 430.205, F.S.; removing certain funding responsibilities of the department; revising frequency of inservice training for certain providers; revising the term "primary consideration" to "priority consideration"; amending s. 430.2053, F.S.; redesignating aging resource centers as aging and disability resource centers; authorizing aging and disability resource centers to place and remove certain individuals on or from preenrollment lists; removing a requirement for convening a work group for certain purposes; removing a requirement for an aging and disability resource center to provide enrollment and coverage information to certain individuals; requiring the aging and disability resource center to receive a waiver to be the provider of other direct services; revising the program to which the department and the agency on aging may not make payments; removing an eligibility requirement for an area agency on aging to transition to an aging resource center; revising who the department may consult with to develop capitation rates; amending s. 430.503, F.S.; removing the responsibility of provider agencies to collect and assess fees for certain purposes; amending s. 430.602, F.S.; defining the term "functionally impaired elderly person"; amending s. 430.605, F.S.; revising certain subsidy payments to include food and nutritional supplements; creating s. 430.71, F.S.; providing purpose and legislative intent for the Florida Alzheimer's Center of Excellence; providing definitions; providing powers and duties of the center; providing eligibility requirements for services; amending s. 430.901, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 744.2001, F.S.; removing a requirement for the executive director of the Office of Public and Professional Guardians to report to the Secretary of Elderly Affairs amending s. 744.2003, F.S.; revising the amount of a specified bond maintained by a guardian for certain purposes; requiring the court to enter a written order waiving the bond requirement and include reasons for waiver under certain circumstances; amending ss. 744.2004 and 744.20041, F.S.; revising disciplinary actions; creating s. 744.20061, F.S.; providing requirements for an entity to serve as an office of public guardian; providing definitions; requiring a board member, a director, or an officer of an office of public guardian to disclose any conflict of interest to the office's board; providing that a conflict of interest in a contract must to be noticed and voted on; providing requirements for certain contracts; providing penalties; amending s. 744.2103, F.S.; revising requirements for a required independent audit for each office of public guardian; amending s. 744.2104, F.S.; providing requirements for Office of Public and Professional Guardians in conducting certain investigations; amending s. 744.351, F.S.; requiring a court to enter a written order with specified information when waiving a certain bond; amending s. 744.361, F.S.; revising powers and duties of a guardian; amending s. 744.3701, F.S.; authorizing a clerk of court to disclose certain confidential information to the Department of Elderly Affairs under certain circumstances; amending s. 744.441, F.S.; revising requirements for the sale of any real or personal property by a guardian; creating s. 744.448, F.S.; providing requirements for the sale of a ward's real property; amending ss. 400.0060, 400.0065, 400.0073, 400.0075, 400.0087, and 430.504, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

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Alex Rizo (R)*, 

Died in Human Services Subcommittee (on 06/16/2025)

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