Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 794
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/25/2026           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       (Jones) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 120 - 121
    4  and insert:
    5  submitted by the state university under subsection(1). This
    6  section shall take effect upon this act becoming a law.
    7         Section 3. Subsections (46) and (47) of section 393.063,
    8  Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (47) and (48),
    9  respectively, subsection (11) is amended, and a new subsection
   10  (46) is added to that section to read:
   11         393.063 Definitions.—For the purposes of this chapter, the
   12  term:
   13         (11) “Developmental disability” means a disorder or
   14  syndrome that is attributable to intellectual disability,
   15  cerebral palsy, autism, spina bifida, Down syndrome, Phelan
   16  McDermid syndrome, or Prader-Willi syndrome, or Tatton-Brown
   17  Rahman syndrome; that manifests before the age of 18; and that
   18  constitutes a substantial handicap that can reasonably be
   19  expected to continue indefinitely.
   20         (46) “Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome” means a disorder caused
   21  by a mutation in the DNMT3A gene typified by mild to severe
   22  intellectual disability, macrocephaly, stature and weight that
   23  is greater than or equal to two or more standard deviations
   24  above the mean for the person’s age and sex, and any of the
   25  following features presenting in infancy, childhood, or
   26  adolescence:
   27         (a) Mild facial dysmorphism.
   28         (b) Joint hypermobility.
   29         (c) Hypotonia.
   30         (d) Kyphoscoliosis.
   31         (e) Seizures.
   32         (f) Cryptorchidism.
   33         (g) Deficits in behavior.
   34         (h) Hematologic malignancies.
   35         Section 4. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
   36  act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete lines 22 - 23
   41  and insert:
   42         Legislature by a specified date; amending s. 393.063,
   43         F.S.; revising the definition of the term
   44         “developmental disability”; providing effective dates.