Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 894
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/19/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
       (Rodriguez) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Present subsection (2) of section 741.325,
    6  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (3), and a new
    7  subsection (2) is added to that section, to read:
    8         741.325 Requirements for batterers’ intervention programs.—
    9         (2) A batterers’ intervention program may offer
   10  supplemental faith-based activities to participants.
   11  Participation in such activities may not be required as part of
   12  the program.
   13         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   15  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   16  And the title is amended as follows:
   17         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   18  and insert:
   19                        A bill to be entitled                      
   20         An act relating to faith-based activities in
   21         batterers’ intervention programs; amending s. 741.325,
   22         F.S.; authorizing batterers’ intervention programs to
   23         offer supplemental faith-based activities; prohibiting
   24         required participation in such activities; providing
   25         an effective date.