Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida H1121: Aging and Disability Services
Status: Chaptered, May 12, 2026
Revising requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to maintain a statewide pre-enrollment list for certain services; providing that the initial assessment of an enrollee shall be reviewed or performed by the Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-term Care Services program; revising provisions relating to intermediate measures taken against an area agency on aging; providing requirements for the procurement of commodities or contractual services by area agencies on aging; limiting the salary of the chief executive officer and executive director of an area agency on aging; requiring the department to impose certain penalties; authorizing an area agency on aging to directly provide core services under certain circumstances; authorizing aging and disability resource centers to place certain clients on and release certain clients from pre-enrollment lists; requiring the clerk to disclose confidential information to the department under certain circumstances; requiring the department to provide specified records to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
What the bill says
An act relating to aging and disability services; amending s. 409.979, F.S.; revising requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to maintain a statewide preenrollment list for certain services; requiring aging and disability resource center personnel to place individuals on certain lists; requiring certain staff to administer rescreening under certain circumstances; authorizing individuals who meet specified criteria to enroll in the long-term care managed care program; amending s…
From the enrolled text, March 11, 2026:
An act relating to aging and disability services; amending s. 409.979, F.S.; revising requirements for Medicaid recipients to receive an offer for enrollment for long-term care services; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to maintain a statewide preenrollment list for certain services; requiring aging and disability resource center personnel to place individuals on certain lists; requiring certain staff to administer rescreening under certain circumstances; authorizing individuals who meet specified criteria to enroll in the long-term care managed care program; amending s. 409.983, F.S.; providing that the initial assessment of an enrollee shall be reviewed or performed by the Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-term Care Services program; amending s. 430.04, F.S.; revising provisions relating to intermediate measures taken against an area agency on aging; creating s. 430.09, F.S.; providing definitions; providing requirements for the procurement of commodities or contractual services by area agencies on aging; limiting the salary of the chief executive officer and executive director of an area agency on aging; providing construction; requiring the department to impose certain penalties; words underlined are additions. hb1121 -01-er FLORIDAHOUSEOFREPRESENTATIVES CS/HB 1121 2026 Legislature amending s. 430.203, F.S.; revising the definitions of the terms "community care service system" and "core services"; amending s. 430.204, F.S.; authorizing an area agency on aging to directly provide core services under certain circumstances; amending s. 430.205, …