Bill > S0788

Introduced Session

An act relating to health care; amending s. 408.821, F.S.; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to authorize certain agencies and organizations to access, use, and run reports in a specified database for certain purposes; amending s. 408.822, F.S.; requiring the agency to publish survey results in a specified manner to ensure that certain facilities cannot be identified; amending s. 429.07, F.S.; authorizing assisted living facilities to retain certain licenses under certain circumstances; requiring such facilities to notify the agency when specified staffing conditions occur; amending s. 429.17, F.S.; requiring the agency to accept for review certain late submissions for application renewal; providing that late fees may still apply in such cases; creating s. 429.212, F.S.; defining terms; requiring referral agencies for assisted living facilities to disclose specified information to a consumer; requiring a referral agency to communicate to certain assisted living facilities of the consumer’s decision to stop using such referral agency; prohibiting a referral agency from specified acts; requiring a referral agency to notify an assisted living facility immediately if the referral agency refers a consumer to that facility; providing requirements for contracts entered into between a referral agency and an assisted living facility; prohibiting a referral agency from offering or entering into referral contracts for compensation prohibited by state or federal law; amending s. 429.23, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “adverse incident”; requiring that an adverse incident report to the agency include specified information relating to the affected resident and the type of incident; deleting provisions requiring the agency to send a certain report; amending s. 429.256, F.S.; revising provisions relating to assistance with the self-administration of medication; amending s. 429.26, F.S.; requiring a third party providing certain services or treatments to provide specified notes and reports to the assisted living facility within a specified timeframe; revising requirements for a medical examination form; amending s. 429.41, F.S.; revising licensure inspection requirements; amending s. 429.52, F.S.; revising training and education requirements for specified assisted living facility staff; amending s. 429.55, F.S.; revising specified information that each assisted living facility must provide to the agency; creating s. 429.56, F.S.; creating the Assisted Living Task Force adjunct to the agency for specified purposes; requiring the agency to provide administrative support to the task force; providing for membership, compensation, meetings, and duties of the task force; requiring the agency to provide specified reports and information requested by the task force; requiring the task force to submit interim status reports and a final report to the Governor and the Legislature by specified dates; requiring that the reports be made available on the agency’s website; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Gayle Harrell (R)*, 

Introduced (on 01/13/2026)

Official Document