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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal Care Attendants"
description: "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.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 485"
citation: "Florida HB 485 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-163"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33462817-5984-40a9-be3f-40ec9ba5232d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d2443680c28839481236286e9274a4fbaa5f9df37f5889d20f17ac1e5d3cf749"
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 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 485 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 485 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 485 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 485 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/485/BillText/er/PDF)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33462817-5984-40a9-be3f-40ec9ba5232d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).