Bill > S1630

Introduced Session

An act relating to aging and disability services; amending s. 409.979, F.S.; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to maintain a statewide pre-enrollment list, rather than a wait list, for certain services; deleting expired requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requiring aging and disability resource center personnel to place on and release certain clients from the pre-enrollment lists; requiring certain staff to administer a rescreening under certain circumstances; deleting a requirement for the Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-term Care Services (CARES) program to conduct prerelease assessments; requiring an aging and disability resource center to conduct a prerelease assessment; authorizing individuals who meet financial and medical eligibility criteria to enroll in the long-term care managed care program; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 409.983, F.S.; requiring the CARES program to review or perform the initial assessment of an enrollee’s level of care; amending s. 430.03, F.S.; revising the purposes of the department to include the provision of services for certain programs only under certain circumstances; amending s. 430.04, F.S.; making a technical change; creating s. 430.09, F.S.; providing procurement requirements for area agencies on aging; 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 definitions; amending s. 430.204, F.S.; deleting certain funding responsibilities of the department and certain entities; prohibiting the area agency on aging from directly providing core services; providing exceptions; deleting the responsibility of provider agencies to collect and assess fees for certain services; amending s. 430.205, F.S.; deleting certain funding responsibilities of the department; deleting a provision providing construction; revising frequency of inservice training for certain providers; requiring that high-risk vulnerable adults be given priority consideration for receiving community-care-for-the elderly services; replacing the term “primary consideration” with “priority consideration”; amending s. 430.2053, F.S.; renaming aging resource centers as aging and disability resource centers; revising the purposes and duties of such centers; authorizing aging and disability resource centers to place on and release certain individuals from pre-enrollment lists; deleting a requirement for a work group to be convened; deleting a requirement to provide enrollment and coverage information to certain individuals; requiring the aging and disability resource center to receive a waiver from the department to be the provider of certain direct services; revising the services for which the department and an area agency on aging may not make payments; deleting an eligibility requirement for an area agency on aging to transition to an aging resource center; revising with whom the department may consult to develop capitation rates; revising construction; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 430.503, F.S.; deleting the responsibility of provider agencies to collect and assess fees for certain purposes; amending s. 430.605, F.S.; revising certain subsidy payments to include food and nutritional supplements; creating s. 430.72, F.S.; providing the purpose of and legislative intent for the Florida Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence; encouraging certain actions related to innovative and efficient program development; defining terms; providing powers and duties of the center; requiring the center to work with specified entities to ensure full use of state infrastructure; authorizing the center to provide direct services or contract for the provision of services; providing eligibility criteria for services; authorizing the center to provide assistance to persons meeting such criteria, subject to availability of funds and resources; amending s. 430.901, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 744.2003, F.S.; revising professional and public guardians’ continuing education requirements to include Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; amending ss. 744.2004 and 744.20041, F.S.; revising certain disciplinary actions and penalties; amending s. 744.2104, F.S.; authorizing the Office of Public and Professional Guardians to issue certain subpoenas to certain entities to compel the production of records in conducting certain investigations; authorizing the office to petition the court for a certain purpose under certain circumstances; reenacting s. 110.501(4), F.S., relating to definitions, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 430.204, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting s. 430.504, F.S., relating to confidentiality of information, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 430.503, F.S., in a reference thereto; reenacting s. 430.603, F.S., relating to home care for the elderly and rules, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 430.605, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date.

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Erin Grall (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1121 (on 03/11/2026)

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