Florida SB 1404: Cultural and Historical Programs

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Memory Care 
2026-03-18T09:37:00Z 
Requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that provide memory care services; making technical changes; requiring an assisted living facility that serves memory care residents or holds itself out as providing memory care services to obtain a memory care services license; providing an exception; requiring an assisted living facility to maintain certain licensure and meet certain requirements in order to obtain a memory care services license; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules governing memory care services licenses by a specified date, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to memory care; amending s. 429.02, 
 3 F.S.; defining terms; amending s. 429.07, F.S.; 
 4 requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that 
 5 provide memory care services; making technical 
 6 changes; creating s. 429.076, F.S.; requiring an 
 7 assisted living facility that serves memory care 
 8 residents or holds itself out as providing memory care 
 9 services to obtain a memory care services license; 
 10 providing an exception; requiring an assisted living 
 11 facility to maintain certain licensure and meet 
 12 certain requirements in order to obtain a memory care 
 13 services license; requiring that a memory care license 
 14 be renewed at the same time as the assisted living 
 15 facility’s standard license; requiring the Agency for 
 16 Health Care Administration to adopt rules governing 
 17 memory care services licenses by a specified date; 
 18 specifying requirements for such rules; requiring an 
 19 assisted living facility licensed on or after the 
 20 effective date of such rules to obtain a memory care 
 21 services license to carry out certain functions; 
 22 requiring an assisted living facility licensed before 
 23 the effective date of such rules to obtain a memory 
 24 care services license within a specified timeframe 
 25 after the effective date of such rules; authorizing a 
 26 facility that served memory care residents without a 
 27 memory care services license before a specified date 
 28 to continue to do so if certain requirements are met; 
 29 requiring a facility without a memory care services 
 30 license to meet specified requirements if a memory 
 31 care resident decides to remain at the facility 
 32 despite the absence of such license; providing 
 33 construction; amending s. 492.17, F.S.; providing that 
 34 a memory care license expires at the same time as the 
 35 facility’s standard license; repealing ss. 429.177 and 
 36 429.178, F.S., relating to patients with Alzheimer’s 
 37 disease or other related disorders and certain 
 38 disclosures and special care for persons with 
 39 Alzheimer’s disease or other related disorders, 
 40 respectively, upon the adoption of certain rules; 
 41 providing an effective date. 
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 43 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 45 Section 1. Present subsections (15) through (28) of section 
 46 429.02, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (17) 
 47 through (30), respectively, new subsections (15) and (16) are 
 48 added to that section, and subsection (12) of that section is 
 49 amended, to read: 
 50 429.02 Definitions.—When used in this part, the term: 
 51 (12) “Extended congregate care” means acts beyond those 
 52 authorized in subsection (20) (18) which may be performed 
 53 pursuant to part I of chapter 464 by persons licensed thereunder 
 54 while carrying out their professional duties, and other 
 55 supportive services that may be specified by rule. The purpose 
 56 of such services is to enable residents to age in place in a 
 57 residential environment despite mental or physical limitations 
 58 that might otherwise disqualify them from residency in a 
 59 facility licensed under this part. 
 60 (15) “Memory care resident” means a person who suffers from 
 61 Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia who is a resident of 
 62 an assisted living facility that claims or otherwise represents 
 63 that it provides specialized care, services, or activities 
 64 specifically to support such resident’s Alzheimer’s disease or 
 65 related dementia, irrespective of whether such care, services, 
 66 or activities were listed in the resident’s contract. 
 67 (16) “Memory care services” means specific specialized or 
 68 focused care, services, or activities an assisted living 
 69 facility agrees to provide to a memory care resident to support 
 70 his or her Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. Such 
 71 services do not include services, care, or activities provided 
 72 by the assisted living facility as supportive services, as 
 73 defined in subsection (29), that are optional and available to 
 74 all residents of the facility. 
 75 Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 429.07, Florida 
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