# Florida SB 398: Awareness Program for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia-related Disorders

Florida SB 398, Awareness Program for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia-related Disorders, is a 2025 Senate bill sponsored by Danny Burgess (Republican); status failed, last action 2025-06-16 (Died in Messages) (as of 2026-10-18).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-SB398-2025
- As of: 2026-10-18
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Florida SB 398
- State: Florida
- Session: 2025
- Title: Awareness Program for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia-related Disorders
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-01-29
- Last action: 2025-06-16, Died in Messages
- Sponsor: Danny Burgess (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Subjects: Appropriation, Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, Fiscal Policy
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 4 (70 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Danny Burgess (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Fiscal Policy

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-24 | Senate | Senate Floor Vote | pass | 37 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-17 | Senate | Fiscal Policy Vote | pass | 16 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-18 | Senate | Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Vote | pass | 10 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-04 | Senate | Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Vote | pass | 7 | 0 |   |

## Actions (21)

- 2025-06-16: Died in Messages (House)
- 2025-05-03: Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration (House)
- 2025-04-24: In Messages (House)
- 2025-04-24: CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 -SJ 528 (Senate)
- 2025-04-24: Read 3rd time -SJ 528 (Senate)
- 2025-04-24: Read 2nd time -SJ 528 (Senate)
- 2025-04-22: CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time (Senate)
- 2025-04-21: Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25 (Senate)
- 2025-04-18: Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading (Senate)
- 2025-04-17: Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) (Senate)
- 2025-04-17: CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/17/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building (Senate)
- 2025-03-18: Now in Fiscal Policy (Senate)
- 2025-03-18: Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-13: On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/18/25, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Senate)
- 2025-03-04: Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-03-04: Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 (Senate)
- 2025-02-27: On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building (Senate)
- 2025-02-10: Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy (Senate)
- 2025-01-29: Filed (Senate)

## Bill text

- c1, 2025-07-01: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/c1/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/c1/PDF)
- Filed, 2025-01-29: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/Filed/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/Filed/PDF)

## Related bills

- HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs (vetoed)
- HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program (vetoed)
- HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death (vetoed)
- HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees (vetoed)
- HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates (vetoed)
- HB 5015: State Group Insurance (vetoed)

## Sources
- [c1 (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/c1/HTML)
- [c1 (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/c1/PDF)
- [Filed (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/Filed/HTML)
- [Filed (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/398/BillText/Filed/PDF)

## Related
- [HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1427-2025)
- [HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1095-2025)
- [HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB6017-2025)
- [HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1445-2025)
- [HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB11-2025)
- [HB 5015: State Group Insurance](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB5015-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-SB398-2025 (as of 2026-10-18).