---
type: "Bill"
title: "Memory Care"
description: "Memory Care; Requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that provide memory care services; making technical changes; requiring an assisted living facility that serves memory care residents or holds itself out as providing memory care services to obtain a memory care services license; providing an exception; requiring an assisted living facility to maintain certain licensure and meet certain requirements in order to obtain a memory care services license; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules governing memory care services licenses by a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1404"
citation: "Florida SB 1404 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-102"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-01-08"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/647d5b2d-ff0b-42c1-a420-d60f0b853e9a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1404/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0bd8e51be192b918f86e3bfa30886d4bc0d5fe1b69bb84a24940421f758c92bd"
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 1404 (2026) — Memory Care

Memory Care; Requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that provide memory care services; making technical changes; requiring an assisted living facility that serves memory care residents or holds itself out as providing memory care services to obtain a memory care services license; providing an exception; requiring an assisted living facility to maintain certain licensure and meet certain requirements in order to obtain a memory care services license; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules governing memory care services licenses by a specified date, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-102.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1404 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1404/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1404 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1404/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1404 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1404/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1404 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1404/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1404 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1404/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burton — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
- Health Policy — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-08** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-16** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/02/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-02** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-04** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-04** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2026-02-04** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/18/26, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/24/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-24** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-25** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-25** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2026-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/26
- **2026-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (620750)
- **2026-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-05** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-102

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/647d5b2d-ff0b-42c1-a420-d60f0b853e9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).