Home Care for the Elderly (HCE) HCE will receive an increase of $3 million in funding. HCE provides care in family-type living arrangements for non-Medicaid individuals, ages 60+, who have incomes and assets meeting the Institutional Care Program (ICP) standard and who are at great risk of nursing home placement. As of May 2023, HCE has a waitlist of more than 20,000 Floridians. Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative (ADI) ADI services will receive an increase of $12 million in funding. ADI provides services to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or other memory disorders, as well as to their families. ADI respite services for families include in home and adult day care, emergency and extended care (up to 30 days) services. Also, the ADI provides support services that include case management, specialized medical equipment and supplies, caregiver counseling and support groups, and caregiver training. As of May PACE organizations provide primary care and social, restorative, and supportive services for Medicaid and Medicare eligible individuals ages 55+ who live in PACE service areas. PACE provides flexibility to families, caregivers, and professional health care providers to meet the clients’ medical and long-term care needs. The specific PACE service area allocations are as follows: 150 authorized slots in Flagler, Seminole, and Volusia Counties; 200 authorized slots in Broward County; 200 new slots in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties; 200 new slots in Miami-Dade County; 125 authorized and 75 new slots in Martin and Palm Beach Counties; and 150 authorized slots in Escambia, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties. Personal Needs Allowance 2023, ADI has a waitlist of more than 16,000 Floridians. Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) Nursing home residents receiving Medicaid long-term care services will see an increase in their monthly personal needs allowance, from $130 to $160. This monthly allowance is used to purchase clothing, toiletries, personal hygiene products, vitamins or supplements, beauty or barber shop services, co-pays for prescriptions not otherwise covered by insurance, eyeglasses, hearing aids and batteries, etc. Affordable Housing – Provided in The Live Local Act (SB 102) The “Live Local Act,” a comprehensive set of laws, both new and amended, included appropriations totaling $711 million for the current or upcoming fiscal year and $1.5 billion over the next 10 years, to help support affordable housing policies in the state. The State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL) program will receive $150 million in recurring funds and $109 million in nonrecurring funds for the construction or rehabilitation of rental units for older adults, persons experiencing homelessness, and persons with developmental disabilities. The State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program will receive $252 million in nonrecurring funds for new construction, emergency repairs or rehabilitation of homes. The Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC) will receive an additional $100 million in nonrecurring funds to implement a competitive assistance loan program for new affordable housing construction projects that have not yet commenced construction and are experiencing verifiable building and material cost increases due to market inflation. The Hometown Hero Housing Program will receive $100 million nonrecurring funds to reduce the upfront costs associated with buying a home for eligible frontline workers, such as educators, police officers, health care providers and childcare workers.
Senate Vote on SB 2500
Albritton
- Burton
Y Hutson Y Ingoglia Y Jones Y Martin Y Mayfield Y Osgood
Y Powell
Y Y Y Y Y
Avila
Y Calatayud Y Collins Y Davis Y DiCeglie Y Garcia
Y Rodriguez
Baxley Berman
Y Rouson Y Simon Y Stewart
Book Boyd
Y Thompson Y
Bradley Brodeur Broxson Burgess
Y Grall
Y Passidomo Y Torres
Y Y Y
Y Gruters Y Harrell Y Hooper
Y Perry Y Pizzo Y Polsky
Y Trumbull
Y Wright
Y Yarborough Y
House Vote on SB 2500
Y Altman Y Andrade Y Bankson
Y Alvarez Y Antone Y Barnaby Y Beltran Y Borrero - Brannan Y Canady Y Chambliss
Y Amesty Y Arrington Y Bartleman Y Benjamin
Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Abbot
Anderson
Baker
Y Bell
Basabe Berfield Brackett
Y Black
Y Botana
Y Bracy Davis Y Campbell
Y Buchanan Y Caruso - Chaney Y Daniels Y Edmonds
Busatta Cabrera
Y Cassel Y Cross
Casello
Y Daley
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Clemons
Y Duggan Y Esposito Y Franklin
Y Dunkley Y Fabricio
Y
Driskell
Y Fernandez-Barquin Y
Eskamani
Y Gantt
Y Garcia
Y
Fine
Y Giallombardo
Y Gonzalez Pittman Y Gossett-Seidman Y
Garrison Gottlieb
Y Grant - Hart
Y Gregory Y Hawkins Y Jaques Y LaMarca Y Maggard Y McClure Y Mooney Y Perez Y Porras Y Roach Y Roth Y Silvers Y Snyder
Y Griffitts Y Hinson Y Joseph
Y Y
Harris
- Hunschofsky
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Holcomb Killebrew López (J) Massullo
Y Kostor
Y Leek
Y Y Y
Y Lopez (V) Y McClain Y Michael Y Payne Y Plasencia
Y Maney
Y McFarland
Y Nixon
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Melo
Y Persons-Mulicka
Y
Overdorf
Y Rayner-Goolsby -
Plakon Renner
Y Rizo
Y Robinson (F)
Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Y Rommel
Y Rudman
Robinson (W)
Y Shoaf Y Smith
Y Sirois Y Stark
Salzman
Skidmore
Y Stevenson Y Trabulsy Y Valdés Y Yarkosky
Y Tant
Y Temple Y Truenow Y Williams Y VACANT
Steele
Y Tramont Y Waldron Y Yeager
Tomkow
Tuck
Woodson
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