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2000 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 409
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE Entire Chapter
    
    SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 409
                SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
            
                        409.016
                        
                    Definitions. 
                    
                        409.031
                        
                    State agency for administering social service funds. 
                    
                        409.141
                        
                    Equitable reimbursement methodology. 
                    
                        409.145
                        
                    Care of children. 
                    
                        409.146
                        
                    Children and families client and management information system. 
                    
                        409.152
                        
                    Service integration and family preservation. 
                    
                        409.153
                        
                    Implementation of Healthy Families Florida program. 
                    
                        409.165
                        
                    Alternate care for children. 
                    
                        409.166
                        
                    Special needs children; subsidized adoption program. 
                    
                        409.167
                        
                    Statewide adoption exchange; establishment; responsibilities; registration requirements; rules. 
                    
                        409.1671
                        
                    Foster care and related services; privatization. 
                    
                        409.1672
                        
                    Incentives for department employees. 
                    
                        409.1673
                        
                    Legislative findings; alternate care plans. 
                    
                        409.1675
                        
                    Lead community-based providers; receivership. 
                    
                        409.1685
                        
                    Children in foster care; annual report to Legislature. 
                    
                        409.175
                        
                    Licensure of family foster homes, residential child-caring agencies, and child-placing agencies. 
                    
                        409.1753
                        
                    Foster care; duties. 
                    
                        409.1755
                        
                    One Church, One Child of Florida Corporation Act; creation; duties. 
                    
                        409.1757
                        
                    Persons not required to be refingerprinted or rescreened. 
                    
                        409.1758
                        
                    Summer camp personnel; fingerprints not required for screening purposes. 
                    
                        409.176
                        
                    Registration of residential child-caring agencies and family foster homes. 
                    
                        409.178
                        
                    Child Care Executive Partnership Act; findings and intent; grant; limitation; rules. 
                    
                        409.179
                        
                    Family-friendly workplace initiative. 
                    
                        409.212
                        
                    Optional supplementation. 
                    
                        409.2355
                        
                    Programs for prosecution of males over age 21 who commit certain offenses involving girls under age 16. 
                    
                        409.2551
                        
                    Legislative intent. 
                    
                        409.2554
                        
                    Definitions; ss. 409.2551-409.2598. 
                    
                        409.2557
                        
                    State agency for administering child support enforcement program. 
                    
                        409.25575
                        
                    Child support enforcement; privatization. 
                    
                        409.2558
                        
                    Child support distribution and disbursement. 
                    
                        409.2559
                        
                    State disbursement unit. 
                    
                        409.2561
                        
                    Child support obligations when public assistance is paid; assignment of rights; subrogation; medical and health insurance information. 
                    
                        409.2564
                        
                    Actions for support. 
                    
                        409.25641
                        
                    Procedures for processing automated administrative enforcement requests. 
                    
                        409.25645
                        
                    Administrative orders for genetic testing. 
                    
                        409.2565
                        
                    Publication of delinquent obligors. 
                    
                        409.25656
                        
                    Garnishment. 
                    
                        409.25657
                        
                    Requirements for financial institutions. 
                    
                        409.25658
                        
                    Use of unclaimed property for past due child support. 
                    
                        409.2567
                        
                    Services to individuals not otherwise eligible. 
                    
                        409.2569
                        
                    Continuation of support services for recipients of public assistance when benefits are terminated. 
                    
                        409.257
                        
                    Service of process. 
                    
                        409.2571
                        
                    Court and witness fees; bond. 
                    
                        409.2572
                        
                    Cooperation. 
                    
                        409.2574
                        
                    Income deduction enforcement in Title IV-D cases. 
                    
                        409.2575
                        
                    Liens on motor vehicles and vessels. 
                    
                        409.2576
                        
                    State Directory of New Hires. 
                    
                        409.2577
                        
                    Parent locator service. 
                    
                        409.2578
                        
                    Access to employment information; administrative fine. 
                    
                        409.2579
                        
                    Safeguarding Title IV-D case file information. 
                    
                        409.2581
                        
                    Use of clearing accounts and revolving funds. 
                    
                        409.2584
                        
                    Interest on obligations due; waiver. 
                    
                        409.259
                        
                    Partial payment of filing fees. 
                    
                        409.2591
                        
                    Unidentifiable moneys held in special account. 
                    
                        409.2594
                        
                    Record requirements. 
                    
                        409.2597
                        
                    Retention of actions. 
                    
                        409.2598
                        
                    Suspension or denial of new or renewal licenses; registrations; certifications. 
                    
                        409.2599
                        
                    Data processing services; interagency agreement. 
                    
                        409.25995
                        
                    State Title IV-D agency; contracts. 
                    
                        409.2673
                        
                    Shared county and state health care program for low-income persons. 
                    
                        409.26731
                        
                    Certification of local funds as state match for federally funded services. 
                    
                        409.2675
                        
                    Rules. 
                    
                        409.285
                        
                    Opportunity for hearing and appeal. 
                    
                        409.352
                        
                    Licensing requirements for physicians, osteopathic physicians, and chiropractic physicians employed by the department. 
                    
                        409.401
                        
                    Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. 
                    
                        409.402
                        
                    Financial responsibility for child. 
                    
                        409.403
                        
                    Definitions; Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. 
                    
                        409.404
                        
                    Agreements between party state officers and agencies. 
                    
                        409.405
                        
                    Court placement of delinquent children. 
                    
                        409.441
                        
                    Runaway youth programs and centers. 
                    
                        409.508
                        
                    Low-income home energy assistance program. 
                    
                        409.509
                        
                    Definitions; weatherization of low-income residences. 
                    
                        409.5091
                        
                    Department responsible for weatherizing agencies; energy assessment. 
                    
                        409.5092
                        
                    Permission for weatherization; rules. 
                    
                        409.5093
                        
                    Replacement agency. 
                    
                        409.801
                        
                    Goal of Legislature; creation of Family Policy Act. 
                    
                        409.802
                        
                    Provisions of Family Policy Act. 
                    
                        409.803
                        
                    Shelter and foster care services to dependent children; pilot programs. 
                    
                        409.810
                        
                    Short title. 
                    
                        409.811
                        
                    Definitions relating to Florida Kidcare Act. 
                    
                        409.812
                        
                    Program created; purpose. 
                    
                        409.813
                        
                    Program components; entitlement and nonentitlement. 
                    
                        409.8132
                        
                    Medikids program component. 
                    
                        409.8134
                        
                    Program enrollment and expenditure ceilings. 
                    
                        409.8135
                        
                    Behavioral health services. 
                    
                        409.814
                        
                    Eligibility. 
                    
                        409.815
                        
                    Health benefits coverage; limitations. 
                    
                        409.816
                        
                    Limitations on premiums and cost-sharing. 
                    
                        409.817
                        
                    Approval of health benefits coverage; financial assistance. 
                    
                        409.8175
                        
                    Delivery of services in rural counties. 
                    
                        409.8177
                        
                    Program evaluation. 
                    
                        409.818
                        
                    Administration. 
                    
                        409.819
                        
                    Identification of low-income, uninsured children; determination of eligibility for the Florida Kidcare program; alternative health care information. 
                    
                        409.820
                        
                    Quality assurance and access standards. 
                    
                        409.8201
                        
                    Enrollment ceiling for non-Medicaid portion of Florida Kidcare program. 
                    
                        409.821
                        
                    Sections 409.810-409.820; confidential information. 
                    
                        409.901
                        
                    Definitions; ss. 409.901-409.920. 
                    
                        409.902
                        
                    Designated single state agency; payment requirements; program title. 
                    
                        409.903
                        
                    Mandatory payments for eligible persons. 
                    
                        409.904
                        
                    Optional payments for eligible persons. 
                    
                        409.905
                        
                    Mandatory Medicaid services. 
                    
                        409.906
                        
                    Optional Medicaid services. 
                    
                        409.9065
                        
                    Pharmaceutical expense assistance. 
                    
                        409.9066
                        
                    Medicare prescription discount program. 
                    
                        409.907
                        
                    Medicaid provider agreements. 
                    
                        409.9071
                        
                    Medicaid provider agreements for school districts certifying state match. 
                    
                        409.908
                        
                    Reimbursement of Medicaid providers. 
                    
                        409.9081
                        
                    Copayments. 
                    
                        409.910
                        
                    Responsibility for payments on behalf of Medicaid-eligible persons when other parties are liable. 
                    
                        409.9101
                        
                    Recovery for payments made on behalf of Medicaid-eligible persons. 
                    
                        409.911
                        
                    Disproportionate share program. 
                    
                        409.9112
                        
                    Disproportionate share program for regional perinatal intensive care centers. 
                    
                        409.9113
                        
                    Disproportionate share program for teaching hospitals. 
                    
                        409.9115
                        
                    Disproportionate share program for mental health hospitals. 
                    
                        409.91151
                        
                    Expenditure of funds generated through mental health disproportionate share program. 
                    
                        409.9116
                        
                    Disproportionate share
                    
                        409.9117
                        
                    Primary care disproportionate share program. 
                    
                        409.9118
                        
                    Disproportionate share program for specialty hospitals. 
                    
                        409.91188
                        
                    Specialty prepaid health plans for Medicaid recipients with HIV or AIDS. 
                    
                        409.9119
                        
                    Disproportionate share program for specialty hospitals for children. 
                    
                        409.91195
                        
                    Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee. 
                    
                        409.912
                        
                    Cost-effective purchasing of health care. 
                    
                        409.9121
                        
                    Legislative findings and intent. 
                    
                        409.9122
                        
                    Mandatory Medicaid managed care enrollment; programs and procedures. 
                    
                        409.9123
                        
                    Quality-of-care reporting. 
                    
                        409.9124
                        
                    Managed care reimbursement. 
                    
                        409.9126
                        
                    Children with special health care needs. 
                    
                        409.9127
                        
                    Preauthorization and concurrent utilization review; conflict-of-interest standards. 
                    
                        409.9128
                        
                    Requirements for providing emergency services and care. 
                    
                        409.913
                        
                    Oversight of the integrity of the Medicaid program. 
                    
                        409.9131
                        
                    Special provisions relating to integrity of the Medicaid program. 
                    
                        409.914
                        
                    Assistance for the uninsured. 
                    
                        409.915
                        
                    County contributions to Medicaid. 
                    
                        409.916
                        
                    Grants and Donations Trust Fund. 
                    
                        409.918
                        
                    Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund. 
                    
                        409.919
                        
                    Rules. 
                    
                        409.920
                        
                    Medicaid provider fraud. 
                    
                        409.9205
                        
                    Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; law enforcement officers. 
                    
                        409.942
                        
                    Electronic benefit transfer program. 
                    
                        409.944
                        
                    Inner City Redevelopment Assistance Grants Program. 
                    
                        409.945
                        
                    Eligibility for grant proposals. 
                    
                        409.946
                        
                    Inner City Redevelopment Review Panel. 
                    
                        409.953
                        
            Rulemaking authority for refugee assistance program.