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IntroducedNov 19, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 04, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 11, 2026
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Became Law
Florida Senate Bill
Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative; Requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative; providing requirements for the initiative; providing requirements for the entity with which the department contracts to develop and implement the initiative, etc.
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Senate • Mar 17, 2026: Ordered enrolled
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Summary
Comments on SB 578
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairsprimary

Votes
YES: 112
- Abbott
- Eskamani
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Alvarez, J.
- Franklin
- Partington
- Anderson
- Gantt
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Aristide
- Gerwig
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Rayner
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Bartleman
- Gottlieb
- Rizo
- Basabe
- Greco
- Robinson, F.
- Benarroch
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Rosenwald
- Black
- Harris
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Hart-Lowman
- Sapp
- Booth
- Hinson
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Holcomb
- Skidmore
- Boyles
- Hunschofsky
- Smith
- Brackett
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Spencer
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Steele
- Kincart Jonsson
- Tant
- Canady
- Koster
- Tendrich
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Long
- Chambliss
- López, J.
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- Cross
- McFarland
- Woodson
- Daley
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Daniels
- Michael
- Yeager
- Driskell
- Miller
- Young
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Dunkley
- Nix
- Edmonds
- Nixon
NO: 0
Actions
- Mar 17, 2026 | Senate
- Ordered enrolled
- Mar 11, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0
- Mar 10, 2026 | House
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- Feb 04, 2026 | House
- In Messages
- Feb 04, 2026 | Senate
- Read 2nd time
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
- Immediately certified
- Feb 02, 2026 | Senate
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/04/26
- Jan 28, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Jan 23, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/28/26, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- Jan 14, 2026 | Senate
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- Now in Fiscal Policy
- CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Introduced
- Jan 12, 2026 | Senate
- CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- Jan 05, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- Dec 09, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Fiscal Policy
- Nov 19, 2025 | Senate
- Filed
Documents
- Bill Analysis -- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Pre-Meeting) (1/9/2026 4:00 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Post-Meeting) (1/13/2026 10:00 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Pre-Meeting) (1/27/2026 8:09 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Post-Meeting) (1/28/2026 9:17 AM)
