Florida Statutes Chapter 394 — MENTAL HEALTH

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XXIX

• § 394.451 — Short title.
• § 394.453 — Legislative intent.
• § 394.455 — Definitions.
• § 394.457 — Operation and administration.
• § 394.4572 — Screening of mental health personnel.
• § 394.4573 — Coordinated system of care; annual assessment; essential elements; measures of performance; system improvement grants; reports.
• § 394.4574 — Responsibilities for coordination of services for a mental health resident who resides in an assisted living facility that holds a limited mental health license.
• § 394.4575 — Student mental health assistance program evaluation.
• § 394.458 — Introduction or removal of certain articles unlawful; penalty.
• § 394.459 — Rights of patients.
• § 394.4593 — Sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties.
• § 394.4595 — Florida statewide and local advocacy councils; access to patients and records.
• § 394.4597 — Persons to be notified; patient’s representative.
• § 394.4598 — Guardian advocate.
• § 394.4599 — Notice.
• § 394.460 — Rights of professionals.
• § 394.461 — Designation of receiving and treatment facilities and receiving systems.
• § 394.4612 — Integrated adult mental health crisis stabilization and addictions receiving facilities.
• § 394.4615 — Clinical records; confidentiality.
• § 394.462 — Transportation.
• § 394.4625 — Voluntary admissions.
• § 394.463 — Involuntary examination.
• § 394.464 — Court records; confidentiality.
• § 394.4655 — Orders to involuntary outpatient placement.
• § 394.467 — Involuntary inpatient placement and involuntary outpatient services.
• § 394.46715 — Rulemaking authority.
• § 394.4672 — Procedure for placement of veteran with federal agency.
• § 394.468 — Admission and discharge procedures.
• § 394.4685 — Transfer of patients among facilities.
• § 394.469 — Discharge of involuntary patients.
• § 394.473 — Attorney’s fee; expert witness fee.
• § 394.475 — Acceptance, examination, and involuntary placement of Florida residents from out-of-state mental health authorities.
• § 394.4781 — Residential care for psychotic and emotionally disturbed children.
• § 394.4784 — Minors; access to outpatient crisis intervention services and treatment.
• § 394.4785 — Children and adolescents; admission and placement in mental facilities.
• § 394.4786 — Intent.
• § 394.47865 — South Florida State Hospital; privatization.
• § 394.4787 — Definitions; ss. 394.4786, 394.4787, 394.4788, and 394.4789.
• § 394.4788 — Use of certain PMATF funds for the purchase of acute care mental health services.
• § 394.4789 — Establishment of referral process and eligibility determination.
• § 394.47891 — Veterans treatment court programs.
• § 394.47892 — Mental health court programs.
• § 394.479 — Interstate Compact on Mental Health.
• § 394.480 — Compact administrator.
• § 394.481 — Supplemental agreements with other states.
• § 394.482 — Payment of financial obligations imposed by compact.
• § 394.483 — Authorized actions by administrator.
• § 394.484 — Transmission of copies of act adopting compact.
• § 394.490 — Short title.
• § 394.491 — Guiding principles for the child and adolescent mental health treatment and support system.
• § 394.4915 — Office of Children’s Behavioral Health Ombudsman.
• § 394.492 — Definitions.
• § 394.493 — Target populations for child and adolescent mental health services funded through the department.
• § 394.494 — General performance outcomes for the child and adolescent mental health treatment and support system.
• § 394.495 — Child and adolescent mental health system of care; programs and services.
• § 394.4955 — Coordinated system of care; child and adolescent mental health treatment and support.
• § 394.496 — Service planning.
• § 394.497 — Case management services.
• § 394.499 — Integrated children’s crisis stabilization unit/juvenile addictions receiving facility services.
• § 394.4995 — Conversion of specified facilities to children’s behavioral crisis units; not required.
• § 394.65 — Short title.
• § 394.656 — Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program.
• § 394.657 — County planning councils or committees.
• § 394.658 — Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program requirements.
• § 394.659 — Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center.
• § 394.6591 — Administrative costs and number of grants awarded.
• § 394.66 — Legislative intent with respect to substance abuse and mental health services.
• § 394.67 — Definitions.
• § 394.674 — Eligibility for publicly funded substance abuse and mental health services; fee collection requirements.
• § 394.676 — Indigent psychiatric medication program.
• § 394.73 — Joint alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health service programs in two or more counties.
• § 394.74 — Contracts for provision of local substance abuse and mental health programs.
• § 394.741 — Accreditation requirements for providers of behavioral health care services.
• § 394.75 — State and district substance abuse and mental health plans.
• § 394.76 — Financing of district programs and services.
• § 394.761 — Revenue maximization.
• § 394.77 — Uniform management information, accounting, and reporting systems for providers.
• § 394.78 — Operation and administration; personnel standards; procedures for audit and monitoring of service providers; resolution of disputes.
• § 394.80 — Authorization to appropriate funds.
• § 394.875 — Crisis stabilization units, residential treatment facilities, and residential treatment centers for children and adolescents; authorized services; license required.
• § 394.876 — Applications.
• § 394.877 — Fees.
• § 394.879 — Rules; enforcement.
• § 394.90 — Inspection; right of entry; records.
• § 394.902 — Moratorium on admissions.
• § 394.903 — Receivership proceedings.
• § 394.907 — Community mental health centers; quality assurance programs.
• § 394.908 — Substance abuse and mental health funding equity; distribution of appropriations.
• § 394.9082 — Behavioral health managing entities.
• § 394.90825 — Boards of behavioral health managing entities; conflicts of interest.
• § 394.90826 — Behavioral Health Interagency Collaboration.
• § 394.9084 — Florida Self-Directed Care program.
• § 394.9085 — Behavioral provider liability.
• § 394.9086 — Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder.
• § 394.9087 — Florida Veterans’ Care Coordination Program.
• § 394.9088 — 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center.
• § 394.910 — Legislative findings and intent.
• § 394.911 — Legislative intent.
• § 394.912 — Definitions.
• § 394.9125 — State attorney; authority to refer a person for civil commitment.
• § 394.913 — Notice to state attorney and multidisciplinary team of release of sexually violent predator; establishing multidisciplinary teams; information to be provided to multidisciplinary teams.
• § 394.9135 — Immediate releases from total confinement; transfer of person to department; time limitations on assessment, notification, and filing petition to hold in custody; filing petition after release; order into custody of department after release.
• § 394.914 — Petition; contents.
• § 394.915 — Determination of probable cause; hearing; evaluation; respondent taken into custody; bail.
• § 394.9151 — Contract authority.
• § 394.9155 — Rules of procedure and evidence.
• § 394.916 — Trial; counsel and experts; indigent persons; jury.
• § 394.917 — Determination; commitment procedure; mistrials; housing; counsel and costs in indigent appellate cases.
• § 394.918 — Examinations; notice; court hearings for release of committed persons; burden of proof.
• § 394.919 — Authorized petition for release; procedure.
• § 394.920 — Petition for release.
• § 394.921 — Release of records to agencies, multidisciplinary teams, and state attorney.
• § 394.9215 — Right to habeas corpus.
• § 394.9221 — Certified security personnel.
• § 394.9223 — Use of force.
• § 394.923 — Immunity from civil liability.
• § 394.924 — Severability.
• § 394.925 — Applicability of act.
• § 394.926 — Notice to victims and others of release of persons in the custody of the department.
• § 394.9265 — Introduction or removal of certain articles unlawful; penalty.
• § 394.927 — Escape while in lawful custody; notice to victim; notice to the Department of Corrections and Florida Commission on Offender Review.
• § 394.928 — Subsistence fees and costs of treatment.
• § 394.929 — Program costs.
• § 394.930 — Authority to adopt rules.
• § 394.931 — Quarterly and annual reports.
• § 394.932 — Registry of experts.