Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Personal Care Attendants"
+description: "Personal Care Attendants; Authorizes nursing home facilities to employ personal care attendants if certain training requirement is met; requires AHCA, in consultation with Board of Nursing, to develop certain training program; provides minimum requirements for such program; provides certain requirements & prohibitions applicable to personal care attendants; authorizes certain persons to be employed by nursing home facility as personal care attendants for specified period if certain training requirement is met; defines \"personal care attendants.\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 485"
+citation: "Florida HB 485 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2021-163"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-01-27"
+last_action: "2021-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33462817-5984-40a9-be3f-40ec9ba5232d"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "d2443680c28839481236286e9274a4fbaa5f9df37f5889d20f17ac1e5d3cf749"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida HB 485 (2021) — Personal Care Attendants
+
+Personal Care Attendants; Authorizes nursing home facilities to employ personal care attendants if certain training requirement is met; requires AHCA, in consultation with Board of Nursing, to develop certain training program; provides minimum requirements for such program; provides certain requirements & prohibitions applicable to personal care attendants; authorizes certain persons to be employed by nursing home facility as personal care attendants for specified period if certain training requirement is met; defines "personal care attendants."
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-163.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **H 485 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/Filed/PDF)
+2. **H 485 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/c1/PDF)
+3. **H 485 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/c2/PDF)
+4. **H 485 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/e1/PDF)
+5. **H 485 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/er/PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **32–7** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Finance & Facilities Subcommittee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage, Third Reading — **106–11** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Health and Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-27** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-02-08** Referred to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Now in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
+- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
+- **2021-03-15** Added to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee agenda
+- **2021-03-17** Favorable with CS by Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
+- **2021-03-18** Reported out of Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
+- **2021-03-18** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
+- **2021-03-18** CS Filed
+- **2021-03-18** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
+- **2021-03-22** Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
+- **2021-03-22** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-22** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
+- **2021-03-22** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
+- **2021-03-24** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
+- **2021-03-25** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
+- **2021-03-25** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
+- **2021-03-25** CS Filed
+- **2021-03-25** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
+- **2021-03-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2021-03-29** Added to Second Reading Calendar
+- **2021-04-16** Amendment 091923 filed
+- **2021-04-18** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/21/2021)
+- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-21** Amendment 091923 adopted
+- **2021-04-21** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2021-04-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-22** CS passed as amended; YEAS 106, NAYS 11 `passage`
+- **2021-04-22** In Messages
+- **2021-04-22** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22** Message sent to senate
+- **2021-04-22** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
+- **2021-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2021-04-22** Received
+- **2021-04-22** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1132
+- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 32 NAYS 7 `passage`
+- **2021-04-26** In Messages
+- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2021-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-28** Chapter No. 2021-163
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33462817-5984-40a9-be3f-40ec9ba5232d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+