Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida H1295: Memory Care
Status: Passed one chamber, March 10, 2026
Requires memory care providers to follow specified standards of operation in providing memory care services; provides requirements for resident contracts; provides requirements for memory care facilities; prohibits certain facilities from advertising, representing, or holding themselves out as memory care providers unless such facilities meet specified criteria; removes provisions relating to special care for persons with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other memory disorders.
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 introduced text, February 6, 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 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 at the time such facility renews its licensure; authorizing a facility that served memory care residents without a memory care services license prior to a specified date to continue to do so if CS/HB 1295 2026 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. hb1295-01-c1 Page 2 of FLORIDAHOUSEOFREPRESENTATIVES certain requirements are met; requiring a facility without a memory care services license to …
Sponsors
- Greco, Sam (R, HD-019) · primary sponsor
- Chaney, Linda (R, HD-061)
- López, Johanna (D, HD-043)
- Valdés, Susan (R, HD-064)
Latest actions
- : Laid on Table; Companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 1404 (Ch. 2026-102)
- : Added to Second Reading Calendar
- : Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- : Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
- : Added to Second Reading Calendar
- : Bill released to House Calendar
- : Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- : Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee
- : Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- : Now in Health & Human Services Committee
Votes
- House: Health & Human Services Committee (February 24, 2026): 22 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Health & Human Services Committee (February 24, 2026): 22 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Health Care Budget Subcommittee (February 12, 2026): 12 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Health Care Budget Subcommittee (February 12, 2026): 12 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee (February 5, 2026): 15 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee (February 5, 2026): 15 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is H1295?
- H1295 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2026 Regular Session): Memory Care.
- What does H1295 do?
- In its own words: 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…
- What is the status of H1295?
- Passed one chamber as of March 10, 2026. Latest action: Laid on Table; Companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 1404 (Ch. 2026-102) (March 10, 2026).
- Who sponsored H1295?
- Greco, Sam (R, HD-019), with 3 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H1295?
- On the Florida Legislature website: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1295
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