---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alzheimer's Disease"
description: "Alzheimer's Disease"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 449"
citation: "Florida HB 449 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-147"
primary_sponsors: ["Children", "Families and Seniors Subcommittee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e414d3ca-1ea3-49aa-a28e-666ccd280cfc"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/449/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8cd69a45252d76a623cc048918eb53e5f54199062c7ce8f2f201293a39ce8598"
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 449 (2019) — Alzheimer's Disease

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-147.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 449 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/449/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 449 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/449/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 449 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/449/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 449 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/449/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Children — primary (person)
- Families and Seniors Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-22** Filed `filing`
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, 02/20/19, 9:00 am, 12 HOB
- **2019-02-20** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2019-02-22** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-02-27** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-03-04** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/06/19, 3:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2019-03-07** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2019-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 03/14/19, 12:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-14** CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-15** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-15** CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2019-03-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-03-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/27/19
- **2019-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-03** In Messages
- **2019-04-04** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Received
- **2019-04-26** Withdrawn from Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-26** Substituted for CS/SB 860
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-27** Chapter No. 2019-147

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e414d3ca-1ea3-49aa-a28e-666ccd280cfc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).