{"id":153129,"date":"2026-02-12T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153129\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:13:09","slug":"sam-grecos-memory-care-reforms-ready-to-move-to-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153129\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Greco’s memory care reforms ready to move to House floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The measure is backed by advocates for senior citizens.<\/p>\n

The second and final House Committee of reference is working to ensure that Floridians with Alzheimer\u2019s and related dementia are not forgotten.<\/p>\n

Rep.\u00a0Sam Greco\u2019s legislation (HB 1295<\/a>) would add new layers of accountability to an industry on which some of the most vulnerable adults in the state rely.<\/p>\n

The proposal, which the Health Care Budget Subcommittee advanced, includes a number of key changes.<\/p>\n

It would create the Memory Care Services specialty license for assisted living facilities (ALFs) treating this population, in an effort to give the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) the ability to ensure these ALFs are doing what they advertise. If the facility can\u2019t get the license, it would not be allowed to admit any new memory care patients, and would have to help legacy clients relocate to a licensed facility.<\/p>\n

Facilities would be required to have an awake staff member on duty at all times, replacing a current requirement that applies the rule to those with 17 members or more<\/p>\n

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If Greco\u2019s bill becomes law, AHCA would be charged with formulating rules regulating policies and procedures, admissions criteria, levels of care, services, activities, and requisite training for staff, and would have to develop the regulatory framework by October.<\/p>\n

AARP, the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, and the Florida Senior Living Association support the bill.<\/p>\n

Similar legislation<\/a> is moving in the Senate Committee process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The measure is backed by advocates for senior citizens. The second and final House Committee of reference is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73856,73857,28,30,29,73858,73859,12077],"class_list":{"0":"post-153129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-alf","9":"tag-assisted-living-facility","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-hb-1295","14":"tag-memory-care","15":"tag-sam-greco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}