---
type: "Bill"
title: "Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly"
description: "Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Elderly Affairs, to approve entities applying to deliver PACE services in the state; requiring applications to be reviewed and considered on a continuous basis; requiring notice of applications to be published in the Florida Administrative Register; providing specified application requirements for such prospective PACE organizations; requiring the agency to oversee and monitor the PACE program and organizations; providing that a PACE organization is exempt from certain requirements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 905"
citation: "Florida HB 905 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-149"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28ff471e-26ca-4719-9a58-944ef61c0494"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/905/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c33178a59b5c5ff88d52b57e1e387d79b1e16466c579a9a4f8cf434775362afa"
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 905 (2021) — Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Elderly Affairs, to approve entities applying to deliver PACE services in the state; requiring applications to be reviewed and considered on a continuous basis; requiring notice of applications to be published in the Florida Administrative Register; providing specified application requirements for such prospective PACE organizations; requiring the agency to oversee and monitor the PACE program and organizations; providing that a PACE organization is exempt from certain requirements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-149.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 905 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/905/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 905 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/905/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 905 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/905/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 905 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/905/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Finance & Facilities Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health and Human Services Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Now in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-04** Added to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-08** Favorable by Finance & Facilities Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08** Reported out of Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
- **2021-03-08** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-03-16** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-03-19** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-03-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-19** CS Filed
- **2021-03-22** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-22** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-03-22** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
- **2021-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-31** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-07** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-08** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Received
- **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-26** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1242
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Amendment(s) adopted (501124)
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-29** Added to Senate Message List
- **2021-04-29** Amendment 501124 Concur
- **2021-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-04-29** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-149

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28ff471e-26ca-4719-9a58-944ef61c0494`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).