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2016 Florida Statutes
                        PART I
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
(ss. 409.016-409.5093)
    
    SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
(ss. 409.016-409.5093)
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
                        409.016
                        
                    Definitions.
                    
                        409.017
                        
                    Revenue Maximization Act; legislative intent; revenue maximization program.
                    
                        409.031
                        
                    State agency for administering social service funds.
                    
                        409.141
                        
                    Equitable reimbursement methodology.
                    
                        409.145
                        
                    Care of children; quality parenting; “reasonable and prudent parent” standard.
                    
                        409.1451
                        
                    The Road-to-Independence Program.
                    
                        409.1452
                        
                    Collaboration with Board of Governors, Florida College System, and Department of Education to assist children and young adults who have been or are in foster care.
                    
                        409.1453
                        
                    Design and dissemination of training for foster care caregivers.
                    
                        409.1454
                        
                    Motor vehicle insurance for children in care.
                    
                        409.146
                        
                    Children and families client and management information system.
                    
                        409.147
                        
                    Children’s initiatives.
                    
                        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.
                    
                        409.1666
                        
                    Annual adoption achievement awards.
                    
                        409.167
                        
                    Statewide adoption exchange; establishment; responsibilities; registration requirements; rules.
                    
                        409.1676
                        
                    Comprehensive residential group care services to children who have extraordinary needs.
                    
                        409.1677
                        
                    Model comprehensive residential services programs.
                    
                        409.1678
                        
                    Specialized residential options for children who are victims of 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.
                    
                        409.1753
                        
                    Foster care; duties.
                    
                        409.1754
                        
                    Sexually exploited children; screening and assessment; training; case management; task forces.
                    
                        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.
                    
                        409.25635
                        
                    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.
                    
                        409.2673
                        
                    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.