---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education and Training For Alzheimer's Disease and Related Forms of Dementia"
description: "Education and Training For Alzheimer's Disease and Related Forms of Dementia; Requires DEA to offer education about Alzheimer's disease & related forms of dementia to general public; requires employees of covered providers, health agency or nurse registry or companion or homemaker service provider, or nursing home, assisted living facility, adult family-care home, or adult day care center to complete specified training; authorizes completed training hours to count toward preservice orientation, other required training, or continuing education hours."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 299"
citation: "Florida HB 299 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(passed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-278"
primary_sponsors: ["Black", "Salzman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11591d53-d9e3-4f11-8563-c4aa9102512d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/299/ByCategory"
source_hash: "64260cfd382374546f31082b917c660647f6375f3c56937622e3b960bf229aaf"
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 299 (2023) — Education and Training For Alzheimer's Disease and Related Forms of Dementia

Education and Training For Alzheimer's Disease and Related Forms of Dementia; Requires DEA to offer education about Alzheimer's disease & related forms of dementia to general public; requires employees of covered providers, health agency or nurse registry or companion or homemaker service provider, or nursing home, assisted living facility, adult family-care home, or adult day care center to complete specified training; authorizes completed training hours to count toward preservice orientation, other required training, or continuing education hours.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-278.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 299 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/299/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 299 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/299/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 299 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/299/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 299 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/299/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Black — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Salzman — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Brannan — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Cassel — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- LaMarca — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Maggard — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-01** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-10** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2023-03-10** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-10** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-13** Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-03-13** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-03-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2023-04-10** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-11** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-12** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-12** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-12** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-13** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
- **2023-04-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-20** In Messages
- **2023-04-21** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-01** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-01** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1182
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-01** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-22** Chapter No. 2023-278

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11591d53-d9e3-4f11-8563-c4aa9102512d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).