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type: "Bill"
title: "Alzheimers Disease Awareness Initiative"
description: "Alzheimers Disease Awareness Initiative; Requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimers 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 578"
citation: "Florida SB 578 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-83"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-11-19"
last_action: "2026-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e48b36a-c77b-4bf3-8ee0-020e15223934"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/ByCategory"
source_hash: "86b7b25870d9c457521a09a49397e7042719764e3a66d123175dad7fe1cd8a3e"
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 578 (2026) — Alzheimers Disease Awareness Initiative
Alzheimers Disease Awareness Initiative; Requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to contract for the development and implementation of the Alzheimers 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.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-83.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 578 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 578 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 578 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/578/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **180** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)
- Simon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-11-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-09** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2026-01-12** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-14** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-01-14** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2026-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/28/26, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-28** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/04/26
- **2026-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-04** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-04** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-04** In Messages
- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-06** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-22** Chapter No. 2026-83
## Source
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).