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IntroducedDec 08, 2025
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Passed Senate
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Passed House
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Became Law
Florida Senate Bill
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.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Feb 26, 2026: CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Mar 02, 2026 12:00pm
Pat Thomas Committee Room, 412 Knott Building
Summary
Comments on SB 794
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Servicesprimary
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairsprimary

- Garciacosponsor
Votes
Actions
- Feb 26, 2026 | Senate
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- Now in Fiscal Policy
- On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/02/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Feb 20, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/25/26, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- Feb 12, 2026 | Senate
- Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- Feb 11, 2026 | Senate
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- Feb 10, 2026 | Senate
- CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- Feb 05, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Introduced
- Dec 16, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
- Dec 08, 2025 | Senate
- Filed
Bill Texts
- S 794 FiledHTML
- S 794 c1HTML
- S 794 c2HTML
- Committee Amendment 660070 (Replaced by Committee Substitute 2/11/2026) -- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Jones)PDF
- Committee Amendment 539302 (Replaced by Committee Substitute 2/25/2026) -- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Jones)PDF
Documents
- Bill Analysis -- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Pre-Meeting) (2/9/2026 11:58 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Post-Meeting) (2/11/2026 10:18 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Pre-Meeting) (2/24/2026 11:10 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Post-Meeting) (2/27/2026 10:38 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Pre-Meeting) (2/27/2026 11:52 AM)
