Florida SB 1630: Aging and Disability Services

Bill Text

1630 
Aging and Disability Services 
2026-01-28T08:43:48Z 
Deleting expired requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requiring the CARES program to review or perform the initial assessment of an enrollee’s level of care; providing procurement requirements for area agencies on aging; requiring that high-risk vulnerable adults be given priority consideration for receiving community-care-for-the-elderly services; revising professional and public guardians’ continuing education requirements to include Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, etc. 
Committee Substitute 1 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for SB 1630 

 By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and 
 Senator Grall 

 586-02241-26 20261630c1 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to aging and disability services; 
 3 amending s. 409.979, F.S.; requiring the Department of 
 4 Elderly Affairs to maintain a statewide pre-enrollment 
 5 list, rather than a wait list, for certain services; 
 6 deleting expired requirements for Medicaid recipients 
 7 to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care 
 8 services; requiring aging and disability resource 
 9 center personnel to place on and release certain 
 10 clients from the pre-enrollment lists; requiring 
 11 certain staff to administer a rescreening under 
 12 certain circumstances; deleting a requirement for the 
 13 Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-term Care 
 14 Services (CARES) program to conduct prerelease 
 15 assessments; requiring an aging and disability 
 16 resource center to conduct a prerelease assessment; 
 17 authorizing individuals who meet financial and medical 
 18 eligibility criteria to enroll in the long-term care 
 19 managed care program; conforming provisions to changes 
 20 made by the act; amending s. 409.983, F.S.; requiring 
 21 the CARES program to review or perform the initial 
 22 assessment of an enrollee’s level of care; amending s. 
 23 430.03, F.S.; revising the purposes of the department 
 24 to include the provision of services for certain 
 25 programs only under certain circumstances; amending s. 
 26 430.04, F.S.; making a technical change; creating s. 
 27 430.09, F.S.; providing procurement requirements for 
 28 area agencies on aging; prohibiting an administrative 
 29 employee of an area agency on aging from receiving a 
 30 specified salary amount; providing construction; 
 31 amending s. 430.203, F.S.; revising definitions; 
 32 amending s. 430.204, F.S.; deleting certain funding 
 33 responsibilities of the department and certain 
 34 entities; prohibiting the area agency on aging from 
 35 directly providing core services; providing 
 36 exceptions; deleting the responsibility of provider 
 37 agencies to collect and assess fees for certain 
 38 services; amending s. 430.205, F.S.; deleting certain 
 39 funding responsibilities of the department; deleting a 
 40 provision providing construction; revising frequency 
 41 of inservice training for certain providers; requiring 
 42 that high-risk vulnerable adults be given priority 
 43 consideration for receiving community-care-for-the 
 44 elderly services; replacing the term “primary 
 45 consideration” with “priority consideration”; amending 
 46 s. 430.2053, F.S.; renaming aging resource centers as 
 47 aging and disability resource centers; revising the 
 48 purposes and duties of such centers; authorizing aging 
 49 and disability resource centers to place on and 
 50 release certain individuals from pre-enrollment lists; 
 51 deleting a requirement for a work group to be 
 52 convened; deleting a requirement to provide enrollment 
 53 and coverage information to certain individuals; 
 54 requiring the aging and disability resource center to 
 55 receive a waiver from the department to be the 
 56 provider of certain direct services; revising the 
 57 services for which the department and an area agency 
 58 on aging may not make payments; deleting an 
 59 eligibility requirement for an area agency on aging to 
 60 transition to an aging resource center; revising with 
 61 whom the department may consult to develop capitation 
 62 rates; revising construction; conforming provisions to 
 63 changes made by the act; amending s. 430.503, F.S.; 
 64 deleting the responsibility of provider agencies to 
 65 collect and assess fees for certain purposes; amending 
 66 s. 430.605, F.S.; revising certain subsidy payments to 
 67 include food and nutritional supplements; creating s. 
 68 430.72, F.S.; providing the purpose of and legislative 
 69 intent for the Florida Alzheimer’s Center of 
 70 Excellence; encouraging certain actions related to 
 71 innovative and efficient program development; defining 
 72 terms; providing powers and duties of the center; 
 73 requiring the center to work with specified entities 
 74 to ensure full use of state infrastructure;