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type: "Bill"
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title: "Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative"
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description: "Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative; Requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative; providing requirements for the initiative; providing requirements for the entity with which the department contracts to develop and implement the initiative, etc."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "SB 578"
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citation: "Florida SB 578 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["social welfare"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2026-83"
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primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-11-19"
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last_action: "2026-05-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e48b36a-c77b-4bf3-8ee0-020e15223934"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "86b7b25870d9c457521a09a49397e7042719764e3a66d123175dad7fe1cd8a3e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 578 (2026) — Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative
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Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative; Requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative; providing requirements for the initiative; providing requirements for the entity with which the department contracts to develop and implement the initiative, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-83.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 578 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 578 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 578 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)
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- Simon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-11-19** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-12-09** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
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- **2026-01-12** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
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- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2026-01-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2026-01-14** Now in Fiscal Policy
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- **2026-01-14** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
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- **2026-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/28/26, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2026-01-28** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-01-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2026-02-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/04/26
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- **2026-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-02-04** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-02-04** Immediately certified
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- **2026-02-04** In Messages
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- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
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- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
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- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2026-05-06** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2026-05-22** Chapter No. 2026-83
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e48b36a-c77b-4bf3-8ee0-020e15223934`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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