republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2021/hb-485.md

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Bill	Personal Care Attendants	Personal Care Attendants; Authorizes nursing home facilities to employ personal care attendants if certain training requirement is met; requires AHCA, in consultation with Board of Nursing, to develop certain training program; provides minimum requirements for such program; provides certain requirements & prohibitions applicable to personal care attendants; authorizes certain persons to be employed by nursing home facility as personal care attendants for specified period if certain training requirement is met; defines "personal care attendants."	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2021	HB 485	Florida HB 485 (2021)	bill		enacted	2021-163		5	47	4	2021-01-27	2021-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/33462817-5984-40a9-be3f-40ec9ba5232d	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/ByCategory	d2443680c28839481236286e9274a4fbaa5f9df37f5889d20f17ac1e5d3cf749	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 485 (2021) — Personal Care Attendants

Personal Care Attendants; Authorizes nursing home facilities to employ personal care attendants if certain training requirement is met; requires AHCA, in consultation with Board of Nursing, to develop certain training program; provides minimum requirements for such program; provides certain requirements & prohibitions applicable to personal care attendants; authorizes certain persons to be employed by nursing home facility as personal care attendants for specified period if certain training requirement is met; defines "personal care attendants."

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-163.

Version chain

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

1. H 485 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 485 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 485 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 485 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 485 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 32–7 (pass) · upper
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Finance & Facilities Subcommittee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 106–11 (pass) · lower
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Health and Human Services Committee — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-27 Filed filing
• 2021-02-08 Referred to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Now in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
• 2021-03-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
• 2021-03-15 Added to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee agenda
• 2021-03-17 Favorable with CS by Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
• 2021-03-18 Reported out of Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
• 2021-03-18 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
• 2021-03-18 CS Filed
• 2021-03-18 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
• 2021-03-22 Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2021-03-22 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2021-03-22 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2021-03-24 Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
• 2021-03-25 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2021-03-25 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
• 2021-03-25 CS Filed
• 2021-03-25 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
• 2021-03-29 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2021-03-29 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2021-04-16 Amendment 091923 filed
• 2021-04-18 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/21/2021)
• 2021-04-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-21 Amendment 091923 adopted
• 2021-04-21 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2021-04-21 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2021-04-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-22 CS passed as amended; YEAS 106, NAYS 11 passage
• 2021-04-22 In Messages
• 2021-04-22 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 Message sent to senate
• 2021-04-22 Withdrawn from Appropriations withdrawal
• 2021-04-22 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2021-04-22 Received
• 2021-04-22 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1132
• 2021-04-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2021-04-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 32 NAYS 7 passage
• 2021-04-26 In Messages
• 2021-04-26 Ordered enrolled
• 2021-06-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2021-06-24 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-06-28 Chapter No. 2021-163

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/33462817-5984-40a9-be3f-40ec9ba5232d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).