Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida S1404: Memory Care
Status: Chaptered, May 26, 2026
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.
What the bill says
An act relating to memory care; amending s. 429.02, F.S.; defining terms; amending s. 429.07, F.S.; requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that provide memory care services; making technical changes; creating s. 429.076, F.S.; 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…
From the enrolled text, March 18, 2026:
An act relating to memory care; amending s. 429.02, F.S.; defining terms; amending s. 429.07, F.S.; requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that provide memory care services; making technical changes; creating s. 429.076, F.S.; 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 that a memory care license be renewed at the same time as the assisted living facilityâs standard license; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules governing memory care services licenses by a specified date; specifying requirements for such rules; requiring an assisted living facility licensed on or after the effective date of such rules to obtain a memory care services license to carry out certain functions; requiring an assisted living facility licensed before the effective date of such rules to obtain a memory care services license within a specified timeframe after the effective date of such rules; authorizing a facility that served memory care residents without a memory care services license before a specified date to continue to do so if certain requirements are met; requiring a facility without a memory …