Chapter 402 Health And Human Services: Miscellaneous Provisions
- 402.04 Award of scholarships and stipends; disbursement of funds; administration.
The award of scholarships or stipends provided for herein shall be made by the Department of Children and Family Services, hereinafter referred to as the...
- 402.05 Requisites for holding scholarship and stipend.
Scholarships or stipends are to be awarded only to such residents of the state as intend to make psychiatric social work, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, and...
- 402.06 Notes required of scholarship holders.
Each person who receives a scholarship or stipend as provided for in this chapter shall execute a promissory note under seal, on forms to be...
- 402.07 Payment of notes.
Prior to the award of a scholarship or stipend provided herein for trainees in psychiatric social work, psychiatry, clinical psychology, or psychiatric nursing, the recipient...
- 402.115 Sharing confidential or exempt information.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Department of Health, the Department of Children and Family Services, and the Agency for Persons...
- 402.12 National Community Mental Health Centers Act.
Any federal funds accruing to the state for the purposes of carrying out the national Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 shall be paid...
- 402.16 Proceedings by department.
(1) Whenever it becomes necessary for the welfare and convenience of any of the institutions now under the supervision and control of the Department of Children...
- 402.161 Authorization for sale of property.
(1) The Department of Children and Family Services is authorized to sell any real or personal property that it acquired by way of donation, gift, contribution,...
- 402.164 Legislative intent; definitions.
(1)(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to use citizen volunteers as members of the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council and the Florida local advocacy councils,...
- 402.165 Florida Statewide Advocacy Council; confidential records and meetings.
(1) The Florida Statewide Advocacy Council shall be located in the Executive Office of the Governor but may be assigned by the Governor for administrative support...
- 402.166 Florida local advocacy councils; confidential records and meetings.
(1) The local councils are subject to direction from and the supervision of the statewide council. The statewide council shall assign staff to provide support to...
- 402.167 Duties of state agencies that provide client services relating to the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council and the Florida local advocacy councils.
The secretaries or directors of the state agencies shall ensure the full cooperation and assistance of employees of their respective state agencies with members and...
- 402.17 Claims for care and maintenance; trust property.
The Department of Children and Family Services and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities shall protect the financial interest of the state with respect to...
- 402.18 Welfare trust funds created; use of.
(1) All moneys now held in any auxiliary, canteen, welfare, donated, or similar fund in any state institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of Children...
- 402.181 State Institutions Claims Program.
(1) There is created a State Institutions Claims Program, for the purpose of making restitution for property damages and direct medical expenses for injuries caused by...
- 402.185 Productivity enhancing technology.
In accordance with the provisions of chapter 216, 20 percent of any unobligated General Revenue Fund or any trust fund appropriation for salaries and benefits,...
- 402.19 Photographing records; destruction of records; effect as evidence.
The Department of Children and Family Services may authorize each of the agencies under its supervision and control to photograph, microphotograph, or reproduce on film...
- 402.20 County contracts authorized for services and facilities for mental health and developmental disabilities.
The boards of county commissioners are authorized to provide monetary grants and facilities, and to enter into renewable contracts, for services and facilities, for a...
- 402.22 Education program for students who reside in residential care facilities operated by the Department of Children and Family Services or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
(1)(a) The Legislature recognizes that the Department of Children and Family Services and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities have under their residential care students with...
- 402.24 Recovery of third-party payments for medical services.
(1) As used in this section, "medical services" means medical or medically related institutional or noninstitutional services which are provided or paid for by the Department...
- 402.25 Infants and toddlers in state-funded education and care programs; brain development activities.
Each state-funded education and care program for children from birth to 5 years of age must provide activities to foster brain development in infants and...
- 402.26 Child care; legislative intent.
(1) The Legislature recognizes the critical importance to the citizens of the state of both safety and quality in child care. Child care in Florida is...
- 402.27 Child care and early childhood resource and referral.
The Department of Children and Family Services shall establish a statewide child care resource and referral network. Preference shall be given to using the already...
- 402.281 Gold Seal Quality Care program.
(1) Child care facilities, large family child care homes, or family day care homes that are accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting association whose standards substantially...
- 402.301 Child care facilities; legislative intent and declaration of purpose and policy.
It is the legislative intent to protect the health, safety, and well-being of the children of the state and to promote their emotional and intellectual...
- 402.3016 Early Head Start collaboration grants.
(1) Contingent upon specific appropriations, the Agency for Workforce Innovation shall establish a program to award collaboration grants to assist local agencies in securing Early Head...
- 402.3018 Consultation to child care centers and family day care homes regarding health, developmental, disability, and special needs issues.
(1) Contingent upon specific appropriations, the department is directed to contract with the statewide resource information and referral agency for a statewide toll-free Warm-Line for the...
- 402.302 Definitions.
(1) "Child care" means the care, protection, and supervision of a child, for a period of less than 24 hours a day on a regular basis,...
- 402.3025 Public and nonpublic schools.
For the purposes of ss. 402.301-402.319, the following shall apply: (1) PUBLIC SCHOOLS.-- (a) The following programs for children shall not be deemed to be child care...
- 402.3026 Full-service schools.
(1) The State Board of Education and the Department of Health shall jointly establish full-service schools to serve students from schools that have a student population...
- 402.3045 Requirement for distinguishable definitions of child care.
The Department of Children and Family Services shall adopt by rule a definition for child care which distinguishes between child care programs that require child...
- 402.305 Licensing standards; child care facilities.
(1) LICENSING STANDARDS.--The department shall establish licensing standards that each licensed child care facility must meet regardless of the origin or source of the fees used...
- 402.30501 Modification of introductory child care course for community college credit authorized.
The Department of Children and Family Services may modify the 40-clock-hour introductory course in child care under s. 402.305 or s. 402.3131 to meet the...
- 402.3051 Child care market rate reimbursement; child care grants.
(1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Child care program assessment tool" means an assessment instrument designated or developed by the department to determine quality...
- 402.3054 Child enrichment service providers.
(1) For the purposes of this section, "child enrichment service provider" means an individual who provides enrichment activities, such as language training, music instruction, educational instruction,...
- 402.3055 Child care personnel requirements.
(1) REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE PERSONNEL.-- (a) The department or local licensing agency shall require that the application for a child care license contain a question that...
- 402.3057 Persons not required to be refingerprinted or rescreened.
Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, human resource personnel who have been fingerprinted or screened pursuant to chapters 393, 394, 397, 402, and...
- 402.306 Designation of licensing agency; dissemination by the department and local licensing agency of information on child care.
(1) Any county whose licensing standards meet or exceed state minimum standards may: (a) Designate a local licensing agency to license child care facilities in the county;...
- 402.307 Approval of licensing agency.
(1) Within 30 days after the promulgation of state minimum standards, each county shall provide the department with a copy of its standards if they differ...
- 402.308 Issuance of license.
(1) ANNUAL LICENSING.--Every child care facility in the state shall have a license which shall be renewed annually. (2) CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP.--Every child care facility shall reapply...
- 402.309 Provisional license or registration.
(1) The local licensing agency or the department, whichever is authorized to license child care facilities in a county, may issue a provisional license for child...
- 402.310 Disciplinary actions; hearings upon denial, suspension, or revocation of license or registration; administrative fines.
(1)(a) The department or local licensing agency may administer any of the following disciplinary sanctions for a violation of any provision of ss. 402.301-402.319, or the...
- 402.311 Inspection.
A licensed child care facility shall accord to the department or the local licensing agency, whichever is applicable, the privilege of inspection, including access to...
- 402.3115 Elimination of duplicative and unnecessary inspections; abbreviated inspections.
The Department of Children and Family Services and local governmental agencies that license child care facilities shall develop and implement a plan to eliminate duplicative...
- 402.312 License required; injunctive relief.
(1) The operation of a child care facility without a license, a family day care home without a license or registration, or a large family child...
- 402.3125 Display and appearance of license; posting of violations; information to be provided to parents.
(1)(a) Upon receipt of a license issued under s. 402.308 or s. 402.309, the child care facility shall display such license in a conspicuous place within...
- 402.313 Family day care homes.
(1) Family day care homes shall be licensed under this act if they are presently being licensed under an existing county licensing ordinance, if they are...
- 402.3131 Large family child care homes.
(1) Large family child care homes shall be licensed under this section. (a) A licensed family day care home must first have operated for a minimum of...
- 402.3135 Subsidized child care case management program.
(1) The department shall establish or contract for a child care case management program for children at risk of abuse or neglect participating in the subsidized...
- 402.314 Supportive services.
The department shall provide consultation services, technical assistance, and inservice training, when requested and as available, to operators, licensees, registrants, and applicants to help improve...
- 402.3145 Subsidized child care transportation program.
(1) The department, pursuant to chapter 427, shall establish a subsidized child care transportation system for children at risk of abuse or neglect participating in the...
- 402.315 Funding; license fees.
(1) If the county designates a local agency to be responsible for the licensing of child care facilities, the county shall bear at least 75 percent...
- 402.316 Exemptions.
(1) The provisions of ss. 402.301-402.319, except for the requirements regarding screening of child care personnel, shall not apply to a child care facility which is...
- 402.317 Prolonged child care.
Notwithstanding the time restriction specified in s. 402.302(1), child care may be provided for 24 hours or longer for a child whose parent or legal...
- 402.318 Advertisement.
No person shall advertise a child care facility without including within such advertisement the state or local agency license number of such facility. Violation of...
- 402.319 Penalties.
(1) It is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, for any person knowingly to: (a) Fail, by false...
- 402.33 Department authority to charge fees for services provided.
(1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Benefit payments" means cash payments from retirement, survivors, or disability insurance or from supplemental security income programs, and...
- 402.34 Body corporate.
The department is a body corporate and shall adopt and have a corporate seal. It shall have the power to contract and be contracted with,...
- 402.35 Employees.
All personnel of the Department of Children and Family Services shall be governed by rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the Department of Management...
- 402.40 Child welfare training.
(1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--In order to enable the state to provide a systematic approach to staff development and training for persons providing child welfare services that will...
- 402.401 Florida Child Welfare Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
(1) There is created the Florida Child Welfare Student Loan Forgiveness Program to be administered by the Department of Education. The program shall provide loan assistance...
- 402.41 Educational materials and training concerning HIV infections and AIDS.
The Department of Health shall develop educational materials and training about the transmission, control, and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infections and acquired immune deficiency...
- 402.45 Community resource mother or father program.
(1) The Department of Health shall establish a community resource mother or father program pursuant to this section within the resources allocated. The purpose of the...
- 402.47 Foster grandparent and retired senior volunteer services to high-risk and handicapped children.
(1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Foster grandparent" means an individual who volunteers to provide support services to high-risk and handicapped children. (b) "Foster grandparent...
- 402.49 Mediation process established.
(1) The Department of Children and Family Services shall establish a mediation process for the purpose of resolving disputes that arise between the department and agencies...
- 402.50 Administrative infrastructure; legislative intent; establishment of standards.
(1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--The Legislature finds evidence of deficiencies in the administrative infrastructure of the Department of Children and Family Services, hereafter referred to as the "department,"...
- 402.55 Management fellows program.
(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a program whereby the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Health may...
- 402.56 Children's cabinet; organization; responsibilities; annual report.
(1) SHORT TITLE.--This act may be cited as the "Children and Youth Cabinet Act." (2) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.-- (a) The Legislature finds that all state agencies and...
- 402.70 Interagency agreement between Department of Health and Department of Children and Family Services.
The Department of Health and the Department of Children and Family Services shall enter into an interagency agreement to ensure coordination and cooperation in identifying...
- 402.71 Transfer of funds, positions, and budget authority within department.
(1) The secretary may transfer funds, positions, and budget authority within the department, pursuant to chapter 216, provided the department comports generally with legislative intent. (2) The...
- 402.73 Contracting and performance standards.
(1) The Department of Children and Family Services shall adopt, by rule, provisions for including in its contracts incremental penalties to be imposed by its contract...
- 402.7305 Department of Children and Family Services; procurement of contractual services; contract management.
(1) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section, the term: (a) "Contract manager" means the department employee who is responsible for enforcing the compliance with administrative and programmatic terms...
- 402.731 Department of Children and Family Services certification programs for employees and service providers; employment provisions for transition to community-based care.
(1) The Department of Children and Family Services is authorized to create certification programs for its employees and service providers to ensure that only qualified employees...
- 402.80 Office of Community Partners.
There is established the Office of Community Partners within the Department of Health for the purpose of receiving, coordinating, and dispensing federal funds set aside...
