---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia Education and Public Awareness"
description: "Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia Education and Public Awareness; Creating the \"Ramping up Education of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia for You (READY) Act\"; requiring the Department of Health to educate certain health care practitioners regarding specified information related to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 806"
citation: "Florida SB 806 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-205"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Perry"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-11-03"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/335bf45a-974e-4d81-a2e5-9d2dec6673c5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/806/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0caf8b743319cf30d7be0461c54389969d06f4d804620ea48330f14b4d8e4324"
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 SB 806 (2022) — Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia Education and Public Awareness

Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Forms of Dementia Education and Public Awareness; Creating the "Ramping up Education of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia for You (READY) Act"; requiring the Department of Health to educate certain health care practitioners regarding specified information related to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-205.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 806 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/806/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 806 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/806/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 806 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/806/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-03** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-16** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/13/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-13** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/26/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-26** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-28** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-09** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-14** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-14** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-14** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/17/22
- **2022-02-16** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-17** In Messages
- **2022-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2022)
- **2022-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/HB 475
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-27** Chapter No. 2022-205

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/335bf45a-974e-4d81-a2e5-9d2dec6673c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).