Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 894
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-01765-25                                            2025894__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to faith-based content in batterers’
    3         intervention programs; amending s. 741.325, F.S.;
    4         specifying that batterers’ intervention programs may
    5         include faith-based content; directing the Department
    6         of Children and Families to amend a specified rule to
    7         conform; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section
   12  741.325, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         741.325 Requirements for batterers’ intervention programs.—
   14         (1) A batterers’ intervention program must meet the
   15  following requirements:
   16         (d) The program content shall be based on a cognitive
   17  behavioral therapy model or psychoeducational model that
   18  addresses tactics of power and control by one person over
   19  another. Program content may include faith-based components.
   20         Section 2. The Department of Children and Families shall
   21  repeal rule 65H-2.017(2)(e), Florida Administrative Code, to
   22  conform to this act.
   23         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.