Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1626
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/28/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       (Grall) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 91 - 339
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 39.3011, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         39.3011 Protective investigations involving military
    8  families.—
    9         (1) For purposes of this section, the term “Family Advocacy
   10  Program” means the program established by the United States
   11  Department of Defense to address child abuse, abandonment, and
   12  neglect in military families.
   13         (2) The department shall enter into an agreement for child
   14  protective investigations involving military families with the
   15  Family Advocacy Program, or any successor program, of each
   16  United States military installation located in this state. Such
   17  agreement must include procedures for all of the following:
   18         (a) Identifying the military personnel alleged to have
   19  committed the child abuse, neglect, or domestic abuse.
   20         (b) Notifying and sharing information with the military
   21  installation when a child protective investigation implicating
   22  military personnel has been initiated.
   23         (c) Maintaining confidentiality as required under state and
   24  federal law.
   25         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 39.401, Florida
   26  Statutes, is amended to read:
   27         39.401 Taking a child alleged to be dependent into custody;
   28  law enforcement officers and authorized agents of the
   29  department.—
   30         (1) A child may only be taken into custody:
   31         (a) Pursuant to the provisions of this part, based upon
   32  sworn testimony, either before or after a petition is filed; or
   33         (b) By a law enforcement officer, or an authorized agent of
   34  the department, if the officer or authorized agent has probable
   35  cause to support a finding that the:
   36         1. That the Child has been abused, neglected, or abandoned,
   37  or is suffering from or is in imminent danger of illness or
   38  injury as a result of abuse, neglect, or abandonment;
   39         2. Child is the subject of a court order to take the child
   40  into the custody of the department;
   41         3.2. That the Parent or legal custodian of the child has
   42  materially violated a condition of placement imposed by the
   43  court; or
   44         4.3. That the Child has no parent, legal custodian, or
   45  responsible adult relative immediately known and available to
   46  provide supervision and care.
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   48  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   49  And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Delete lines 2 - 45
   51  and insert:
   52         An act relating to child welfare; creating s. 39.3011,
   53         F.S.; defining the term “Family Advocacy Program”;
   54         requiring the Department of Children and Families to
   55         enter into agreements with certain military
   56         installations for child protective investigations
   57         involving military families; providing requirements
   58         for such agreements; amending s. 39.401, F.S.;
   59         authorizing a law enforcement officer or an authorized
   60         agent of the department to take a child into custody
   61         who is the subject of a specified court order;
   62         amending s.