Florida Statutes Chapter 409 — SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

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.

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• § 409.016 — Definitions.
• § 409.017 — Revenue Maximization Act; legislative intent; revenue maximization program.
• § 409.031 — State agency for administering social service funds.
• § 409.1415 — Parenting partnerships for children in out-of-home care; resources.
• § 409.145 — Care of children; “reasonable and prudent parent” standard.
• § 409.1451 — The Road-to-Independence Program.
• § 409.14515 — Independent living preparation.
• § 409.1452 — Collaboration with State University System, Florida College System, and Department of Education to assist children and young adults who have been or are in foster care or are experiencing homelessness; documentation regarding eligibility for tuition and fee exemptions; housing assistance.
• § 409.14525 — Housing support for young adults; federal housing vouchers.
• § 409.1454 — Motor vehicle insurance and driver licenses for children in care and certified unaccompanied homeless youth.
• § 409.1455 — Step into Success Workforce Education and Internship Program for foster youth and former foster youth.
• § 409.146 — Children and families client and management information system.
• § 409.1464 — Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.
• § 409.1465 — Grants to address the needs of fathers.
• § 409.1467 — Mentorship for at-risk male students.
• § 409.147 — Florida Children’s Initiatives.
• § 409.1475 — Foster and Family Support Grant Program.
• § 409.153 — Implementation of Healthy Families Florida program.
• § 409.165 — Alternate care for children.
• § 409.166 — Children within the child welfare system; adoption assistance program.
• § 409.1662 — Children within the child welfare system; adoption incentive program.
• § 409.1664 — Adoption benefits for qualifying adoptive employees of state agencies, veterans, servicemembers, law enforcement officers, health care practitioners, and tax collector employees.
• § 409.1666 — Annual adoption achievement awards.
• § 409.167 — Statewide adoption exchange; establishment; responsibilities; registration requirements; rules.
• § 409.16742 — Shared family care residential services program for substance-exposed newborns.
• § 409.1676 — Comprehensive residential group care services to children who have extraordinary needs.
• § 409.1678 — Specialized residential options for children who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
• § 409.1679 — Additional requirements; reimbursement methodology.
• § 409.16791 — Ongoing study of commercial sexual exploitation of children.
• § 409.175 — Licensure of family foster homes, residential child-caring agencies, and child-placing agencies; public records exemption.
• § 409.1754 — Commercial sexual exploitation of children; screening and assessment; training; multidisciplinary staffings; service plans.
• § 409.1755 — One Church, One Child of Florida Corporation Act; creation; duties.
• § 409.1757 — Persons not required to be refingerprinted or rescreened.
• § 409.176 — Registration of residential child-caring agencies and family foster homes.
• § 409.179 — Family-friendly workplace initiative.
• § 409.212 — Optional supplementation.
• § 409.221 — Consumer-directed care program.
• § 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 — Support enforcement; privatization.
• § 409.2558 — Support distribution and disbursement.
• § 409.2559 — State disbursement unit.
• § 409.256 — Administrative proceeding to establish paternity or paternity and child support; order to appear for genetic testing.
• § 409.2561 — Support obligations when public assistance is paid; assignment of rights; subrogation; medical and health insurance information.
• § 409.2563 — Administrative establishment of child support obligations.
• § 409.25633 — Title IV-D Standard Parenting Time Plans.
• § 409.25635 — Determination and collection of noncovered medical expenses.
• § 409.2564 — Actions for support.
• § 409.25641 — Procedures for processing interstate enforcement requests.
• § 409.2565 — Publication of delinquent obligors.
• § 409.25656 — Garnishment.
• § 409.25657 — Requirements for financial institutions.
• § 409.25658 — Use of unclaimed property for past due support.
• § 409.25659 — Insurance claim data exchange.
• § 409.25661 — Public records exemption for insurance claim data exchange information.
• § 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 — Filing fees in Title IV-D cases; electronic filing of pleadings, returns of service, and other papers.
• § 409.2594 — Record requirements.
• § 409.2597 — Retention of actions.
• § 409.2598 — License suspension proceeding to enforce support order.
• § 409.2599 — Data processing services; interagency agreement.
• § 409.25995 — State Title IV-D agency; contracts.
• § 409.25996 — Organizations that assist noncustodial parents.
• § 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.
• § 409.285 — 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.
• § 409.406 — Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance.
• § 409.407 — Interstate agreements between the Department of Children and Families and agencies of other states.
• § 409.408 — Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children.
• § 409.409 — Effect of existing compact provisions.
• § 409.4101 — Rulemaking authority.
• § 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.
• § 409.5093 — Replacement agency.
• § 409.810 — Short title.
• § 409.811 — Definitions relating to Florida Kidcare Act.
• § 409.812 — Program created; purpose.
• § 409.813 — Health benefits coverage; program components; entitlement and nonentitlement.
• § 409.8132 — Medikids program component.
• § 409.8134 — Program expenditure ceiling; enrollment.
• § 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.
• § 409.820 — Quality assurance and access standards.
• § 409.821 — Florida Kidcare program public records exemption.
• § 409.901 — Definitions; ss. 409.901-409.920.
• § 409.902 — Designated single state agency; payment requirements; program title; release of medical records.
• § 409.90201 — Recipient address update process.
• § 409.9021 — Forfeiture of eligibility agreement.
• § 409.9025 — Eligibility while an inmate.
• § 409.903 — Mandatory payments for eligible persons.
• § 409.904 — Optional payments for eligible persons.
• § 409.9041 — Working People with Disabilities program.
• § 409.905 — Mandatory Medicaid services.
• § 409.906 — Optional Medicaid services.
• § 409.9062 — Lung transplant services for Medicaid recipients.
• § 409.9063 — Coverage of continuous glucose monitors for Medicaid recipients.
• § 409.90637 — Agency to seek federal approval for coverage and reimbursement authority for mobile crisis response services.
• § 409.90638 — Agency to seek federal approval to implement acute hospital care at home program in state Medicaid program.
• § 409.9066 — Medicare prescription discount program.
• § 409.907 — Medicaid provider agreements.
• § 409.9071 — Medicaid provider agreements for school districts certifying state match.
• § 409.9072 — Medicaid provider agreements for charter schools and private schools.
• § 409.908 — Reimbursement of Medicaid providers.
• § 409.9081 — Copayments.
• § 409.9082 — Quality assessment on nursing home facility providers; exemptions; purpose; federal approval required; remedies.
• § 409.9083 — Quality assessment on privately operated intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled; exemptions; purpose; federal approval required; remedies.
• § 409.909 — Statewide Medicaid Residency Program.
• § 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.
• § 409.9102 — A qualified state Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Program in Florida.
• § 409.911 — Disproportionate share program.
• § 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/financial assistance program for rural hospitals.
• § 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.
• § 409.91196 — Supplemental rebate agreements; public records and public meetings exemption.
• § 409.912 — Cost-effective purchasing of health care.
• § 409.91206 — Alternatives for health and long-term care reforms.
• § 409.9121 — Legislative findings and intent.
• § 409.91212 — Medicaid managed care fraud.
• § 409.9122 — Medicaid managed care enrollment; HIV/AIDS patients; procedures; data collection; accounting; information system; medical loss ratio.
• § 409.9123 — Quality-of-care reporting.
• § 409.91235 — Agency review and report on medications, treatments, and services for sickle cell disease.
• § 409.91255 — Federally qualified health center access program.
• § 409.91256 — Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health (TEACH) Funding Program.
• § 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.
• § 409.9132 — Pilot project to monitor home health services.
• § 409.9133 — Pilot project for home health care management.
• § 409.9134 — Agency to distinguish certain services as to skilled home health services; prohibited from requiring home health agencies to meet certain requirements for Medicaid participation.
• § 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.
• § 409.9201 — Medicaid fraud.
• § 409.9203 — Rewards for reporting Medicaid fraud.
• § 409.9205 — Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
• § 409.9207 — Medicaid eligibility assistance for persons with disabilities.
• § 409.961 — Statutory construction; applicability; rules.
• § 409.962 — Definitions.
• § 409.963 — Single state agency.
• § 409.964 — Managed care program; state plan; waivers.
• § 409.965 — Mandatory enrollment.
• § 409.966 — Eligible plans; selection.
• § 409.967 — Managed care plan accountability.
• § 409.968 — Managed care plan payments.
• § 409.969 — Enrollment; disenrollment.
• § 409.971 — Managed medical assistance program.
• § 409.972 — Mandatory and voluntary enrollment.
• § 409.973 — Benefits.
• § 409.974 — Eligible plans.
• § 409.9745 — Managed care plan biomarker testing.
• § 409.975 — Managed care plan accountability.
• § 409.976 — Managed care plan payment.
• § 409.977 — Enrollment.
• § 409.978 — Long-term care managed care program.
• § 409.979 — Eligibility.
• § 409.98 — Long-term care plan benefits.
• § 409.981 — Eligible long-term care plans.
• § 409.982 — Long-term care managed care plan accountability.
• § 409.983 — Long-term care managed care plan payment.
• § 409.984 — Enrollment in a long-term care managed care plan.
• § 409.985 — Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-Term Care Services (CARES) Program.
• § 409.9855 — Pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities.
• § 409.986 — Legislative findings and intent; child protection and child welfare outcomes; definitions.
• § 409.987 — Lead agency procurement; boards; conflicts of interest.
• § 409.988 — Community-based care lead agency duties; general provisions.
• § 409.990 — Funding for lead agencies.
• § 409.9913 — Funding methodology to allocate funding to lead agencies.
• § 409.992 — Lead agency expenditures.
• § 409.993 — Lead agencies and subcontractor liability.
• § 409.994 — Community-based care lead agencies; receivership.
• § 409.996 — Duties of the Department of Children and Families.
• § 409.997 — Child welfare results-oriented accountability program.