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Florida 2026

SB 794

Agency for Persons with Disabilities

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-18 15:11:01 UTC.

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
Florida
Session
2026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
public health
Introduced / first action
2025-12-08 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Agency for Persons with Disabilities; Requiring level 2 employment screening for all employees of residential facilities and adult day training programs; providing background screening requirements for such employees; requiring the agency to solicit input and conduct publicly noticed hearings for a specified purpose in each service region; requiring the agency to use certain information to identify certain core competencies and performance metrics and make recommendations for standardizing assessments, etc.

Sponsors

  • Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (primary), primary
  • Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (primary), primary
  • Jones (primary), primary
  • Garcia, cosponsor

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 565 (Ch. 2026-129)

    deferral

  2. Substituted CS/CS/HB 565

  3. Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  4. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/26

  5. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  6. Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable

  7. CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time

  8. On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/02/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building

  9. Now in Fiscal Policy

  10. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  11. CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 8 NAYS 0

  12. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/25/26, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building

  13. Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

  14. CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time

  15. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  16. CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0

  17. On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 301 Senate Building

  18. Introduced

    introduction

  19. Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy

    referral-committee

  20. Filed

    filing

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