---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alzheimer's Disease"
description: "Alzheimer's Disease; Requires state agencies to provide assistance to Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee; creates position of Dementia Director within DOEA; requires Secretary of Elderly Affairs to appoint director; authorizes director to call upon certain agencies for assistance; provides duties & responsibilities of director; revises name of memory disorder clinic in Orange County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 835"
citation: "Florida HB 835 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-45"
primary_sponsors: ["Plakon", "Willhite"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-12-02"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb9cbf27-1257-4274-87ee-23d602cace81"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/835/ByCategory"
source_hash: "db66c2a57ae55c6f3cb9dd12f77dc554fa314cb3d08625886ec4fa06a0ccd836"
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 835 (2020) — Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease; Requires state agencies to provide assistance to Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee; creates position of Dementia Director within DOEA; requires Secretary of Elderly Affairs to appoint director; authorizes director to call upon certain agencies for assistance; provides duties & responsibilities of director; revises name of memory disorder clinic in Orange County.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-45.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 835 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/835/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 835 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/835/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 835 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/835/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 835 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/835/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Plakon — primary (person)
- Willhite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-02** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-16** Referred to Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** PCS on Committee agenda-- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 3:30 pm, 12 HOB
- **2020-02-04** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-05** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-06** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-02-06** Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Committee
- **2020-02-06** CS referred to Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-06** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/18/20, 3:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-18** Favorable by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (065489)
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Temporarily postponed, on 3rd Reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** In Messages
- **2020-03-10** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for SB 1542
- **2020-03-10** Received
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-45

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb9cbf27-1257-4274-87ee-23d602cace81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).