HB 1457: Aging and Disability Services

GENERAL BILL by Rizo

Aging and Disability Services; Revises requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requires DOEA to maintain statewide pre-enrollment list for certain services; requires aging & disability resource center personnel to place individuals on certain lists; requires certain staff to administer rescreening under certain circumstances; revises purposes of DOEA to include providing direct services to elderly population; defines "functionally impaired elderly person"; revises certain subsidy payments to include food & nutritional supplements; provides purpose & legislative intent for Florida Alzheimer's Center of Excellence; provides powers & duties of center; provides eligibility requirements for services; provides requirements for Office of Public & Professional Guardians in conducting certain investigations; requires court to enter written order with specified information when waiving certain bond; revises powers & duties of guardian; authorizes clerk of court to disclose certain confidential information to DOEA; revises requirements for sale of any real or personal property by guardian.

Current Bill Version Posted: 2/28/2025 12:34 PM

• Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number Subject Filed By Last Action and Location	Relationship Learn more about bill relationships
  S 1086 by Simon Department of Elderly Affairs Last Action: 6/16/2025 S Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs	Similar
  H 493 (c2) by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee Memory Care Last Action: 6/16/2025 S Died in Fiscal Policy	Compare

• Citations - Statute (32)

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  400.0060	Definitions.	Page 57 [pdf]
  400.0065	State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; duties and responsibilities.	Page 57 [pdf]
  400.0067	State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council; duties; membership.	Page 5 [pdf]
  400.0073	State and local ombudsman council investigations.	Page 58 [pdf]
  400.0075	Complaint notification and resolution procedures.	Page 59 [pdf]
  400.0087	Department oversight; funding.	Page 60 [pdf]
  409.979	Eligibility.	Page 5 [pdf]
  430.03	Purposes.	Page 10 [pdf]
  430.04	Duties and responsibilities of the Department of Elderly Affairs.	Page 11 [pdf]
  430.09		Page 12 [pdf]
  430.203	Community care for the elderly; definitions.	Page 14 [pdf]
  430.204	Community-care-for-the-elderly core services; departmental powers and duties.	Page 15 [pdf]
  430.205	Community care service system.	Page 16 [pdf]
  430.2053	Aging resource centers.	Page 19 [pdf]
  430.503	Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative; fees and administrative expense.	Page 29 [pdf]
  430.504	Confidentiality of information.	Page 60 [pdf]
  430.602	Home care for the elderly; definitions.	Page 30 [pdf]
  430.605	Subsidy payments.	Page 30 [pdf]
  430.71		Page 31 [pdf]
  430.901	Multiservice senior center; definition; purpose.	Page 34 [pdf]
  744.2001	Office of Public and Professional Guardians.	Page 35 [pdf]
  744.2003	Regulation of professional guardians; application; bond required; educational requirements.	Page 36 [pdf]
  744.2004	Complaints; disciplinary proceedings; penalties; enforcement.	Page 37 [pdf]
  744.20041	Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement.	Page 38 [pdf]
  744.20061		Page 43 [pdf]
  744.2103	Reports and standards.	Page 50 [pdf]
  744.2104	Access to records by the Office of Public and Professional Guardians; confidentiality.	Page 51 [pdf]
  744.351	Bond of guardian.	Page 52 [pdf]
  744.361	Powers and duties of guardian.	Page 52 [pdf]
  744.3701	Confidentiality.	Page 53 [pdf]
  744.441	Powers of guardian upon court approval.	Page 53 [pdf]
  744.448		Page 54 [pdf]

• Bill History

  S = Senate, H = House

  2/28/2025	H	• Filed
  3/4/2025	H	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  3/5/2025	H	• Referred to Human Services Subcommittee • Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Human Services Subcommittee
  5/3/2025	H	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  6/16/2025	H	• Died in Human Services Subcommittee