eLaws of Florida

 

  CHAPTER 394. MENTAL HEALTH  


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