Florida SB 1594: Veteran Benefit Payments to Minor Clients

Bill Text

1594 
Veteran Benefit Payments to Minor Clients 
2026-01-09T06:38:50Z 
Authorizing the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to access certain benefit payments for specified purposes; prohibiting the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities from supplanting certain financial assistance, 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 1594 

 By Senator Gaetz 

 1-01396-26 20261594__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to veteran benefit payments to minor 
 3 clients; amending s. 402.33, F.S.; authorizing the 
 4 Department of Children and Families, the Department of 
 5 Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to 
 6 access certain benefit payments for specified 
 7 purposes; prohibiting the Department of Children and 
 8 Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for 
 9 Persons with Disabilities from supplanting certain 
 10 financial assistance; providing an effective date. 
 11 
 12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 13 
 14 Section 1. Present subsections (3) through (9) of section 
 15 402.33, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4) 
 16 through (10), respectively, and a new subsection (3) is added to 
 17 that section, to read: 
 18 402.33 Department authority to charge fees for services 
 19 provided.— 
 20 (3) The department may access benefit payments provided by 
 21 the United States Department of Veterans Affairs which are in a 
 22 combined account for postsecondary education services and 
 23 support and aftercare services under s. 409.1451 when a minor 
 24 client attains 18 years of age or, if enrolled in school, 23 
 25 years of age; however, the department may not supplant financial 
 26 assistance provided in 409.1451(2)(b). 
 27 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.