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Introduced Session

An act relating to aging and disability services; 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 pre- enrollment 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; authorizing individuals who meet specified criteria to enroll in the long-term care managed care program; amending s. 409.983, F.S.; providing that the initial assessment of an enrollee shall be reviewed or performed by the Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-term Care Services program; amending s. 430.04, F.S.; revising provisions relating to intermediate measures taken against an area agency on aging; creating s. 430.09, F.S.; providing definitions; providing requirements for the procurement of commodities or contractual services by area agencies on aging; limiting the salary of the chief executive officer and executive director of an area agency on aging; providing construction; requiring the department to impose certain penalties; amending s. 430.203, F.S.; revising the definitions of the terms "community care service system" and "core services"; amending s. 430.204, F.S.; authorizing an area agency on aging to directly provide core services under certain circumstances; amending s. 430.205, F.S.; removing obsolete language; revising frequency of inservice training for certain providers; requiring certain elderly persons to be given priority consideration for receiving certain services; amending s. 430.2053, F.S.; redesignating aging resource centers as aging and disability resource centers; revising the purpose thereof; authorizing aging and disability resource centers to place certain clients on and release certain clients from pre-enrollment lists; removing a requirement to convene a work group for certain purposes; removing a requirement 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 the entity with which the department may consult to develop capitation rates; amending s. 430.605, F.S.; revising certain subsidy payments to include supplements to provide for food and nutritional supplements and certain care; amending s. 430.901, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; amending s. 744.2001, F.S.; revising the required qualifications of the executive director of the Office of Public and Professional Guardians; amending s. 744.2003, F.S.; revising continuing education requirements for a professional guardian; amending ss. 744.2004 and 744.20041, F.S.; revising disciplinary actions taken by the office; amending s. 744.2104, F.S.; providing certain authority for the office in conducting certain investigations; amending s. 744.3701, F.S.; requiring the clerk to disclose confidential information to the department under certain circumstances; requiring the department to provide specified records to the Legislature by a specified date; providing an effective date.

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Fabián Basabe (R)*,  Alex Rizo (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

Received (on 02/26/2026)

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