Florida SB 788: Veterans’ Nursing Homes

Bill Text

788 
Health Care 
2025-12-08T07:25:54Z 
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; authorizing assisted living facilities to retain certain licenses under certain circumstances; requiring referral agencies for assisted living facilities to disclose specified information to a consumer; providing requirements for contracts entered into between a referral agency and an assisted living facility; creating the Assisted Living Task Force adjunct to the agency for specified purposes, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 788 

 By Senator Harrell 

 31-00405A-26 2026788__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to health care; amending s. 408.821, 
 3 F.S.; authorizing the Agency for Health Care 
 4 Administration to authorize certain agencies and 
 5 organizations to access, use, and run reports in a 
 6 specified database for certain purposes; amending s. 
 7 408.822, F.S.; requiring the agency to publish survey 
 8 results in a specified manner to ensure that certain 
 9 facilities cannot be identified; amending s. 429.07, 
 10 F.S.; authorizing assisted living facilities to retain 
 11 certain licenses under certain circumstances; 
 12 requiring such facilities to notify the agency when 
 13 specified staffing conditions occur; amending s. 
 14 429.17, F.S.; requiring the agency to accept for 
 15 review certain late submissions for application 
 16 renewal; providing that late fees may still apply in 
 17 such cases; creating s. 429.212, F.S.; defining terms; 
 18 requiring referral agencies for assisted living 
 19 facilities to disclose specified information to a 
 20 consumer; requiring a referral agency to communicate 
 21 to certain assisted living facilities of the 
 22 consumer’s decision to stop using such referral 
 23 agency; prohibiting a referral agency from specified 
 24 acts; requiring a referral agency to notify an 
 25 assisted living facility immediately if the referral 
 26 agency refers a consumer to that facility; providing 
 27 requirements for contracts entered into between a 
 28 referral agency and an assisted living facility; 
 29 prohibiting a referral agency from offering or 
 30 entering into referral contracts for compensation 
 31 prohibited by state or federal law; amending s. 
 32 429.23, F.S.; revising the definition of the term 
 33 “adverse incident”; requiring that an adverse incident 
 34 report to the agency include specified information 
 35 relating to the affected resident and the type of 
 36 incident; deleting provisions requiring the agency to 
 37 send a certain report; amending s. 429.256, F.S.; 
 38 revising provisions relating to assistance with the 
 39 self-administration of medication; amending s. 429.26, 
 40 F.S.; requiring a third party providing certain 
 41 services or treatments to provide specified notes and 
 42 reports to the assisted living facility within a 
 43 specified timeframe; revising requirements for a 
 44 medical examination form; amending s. 429.41, F.S.; 
 45 revising licensure inspection requirements; amending 
 46 s. 429.52, F.S.; revising training and education 
 47 requirements for specified assisted living facility 
 48 staff; amending s. 429.55, F.S.; revising specified 
 49 information that each assisted living facility must 
 50 provide to the agency; creating s. 429.56, F.S.; 
 51 creating the Assisted Living Task Force adjunct to the 
 52 agency for specified purposes; requiring the agency to 
 53 provide administrative support to the task force; 
 54 providing for membership, compensation, meetings, and 
 55 duties of the task force; requiring the agency to 
 56 provide specified reports and information requested by 
 57 the task force; requiring the task force to submit 
 58 interim status reports and a final report to the 
 59 Governor and the Legislature by specified dates; 
 60 requiring that the reports be made available on the 
 61 agency’s website; providing for future legislative 
 62 review and repeal; providing an effective date. 
 63 
 64 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 65 
 66 Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 408.821, Florida 
 67 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 68 408.821 Emergency management planning; emergency 
 69 operations; inactive license.— 
 70 (4) The agency may adopt rules relating to emergency 
 71 management planning, communications, and operations. Licensees 
 72 providing residential or inpatient services must use utilize an 
 73 online database approved by the agency to report information to 
 74 the agency regarding the provider’s emergency status, planning, 
 75 or operations. The agency may authorize support agencies and 
 76 organizations that assist the state as part of the Emergency 
 77 Support Function 8 of the State Emergency Response Team to 
 78