HB 1045 Summary

• Removes provisions related to Front Porch Florida Communities grants from the Closing the Gap grant program eligibility and award requirements.

• Adds Alzheimer's disease and dementia as a priority area that grant proposals may address, and modifies the neighborhood social determinants of health priority area.

• Prohibits the Department of Health from establishing minimum or maximum grant amounts and requires awards to be based on individual application merits with funding distributed to applicants across various state regions.

• Authorizes the Closing the Gap program and HIV/AIDS program to create synergistic initiatives, including a supplemental grant program for minority populations in metropolitan areas with high HIV/AIDS prevalence to reduce HIV incidence and identify individuals unaware of their HIV status.

• Effective date: July 1, 2019.