Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1146
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/14/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
       (Yarborough) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 41 - 64
    4  and insert:
    5  brought under s. 742.011. Judicial or administrative proceedings
    6  are not required or permitted to ratify an unchallenged
    7  acknowledgment of paternity.
    8         Section 3. Subsection (1) of section 744.301, Florida
    9  Statutes, is amended to read:
   10         744.301 Natural guardians.—
   11         (1) The parents jointly are the natural guardians of their
   12  own children and of their adopted children, during minority,
   13  unless the parents’ parental rights have been terminated
   14  pursuant to chapter 39. If a child is the subject of any
   15  proceeding under chapter 39, the parents may act as natural
   16  guardians under this section unless the court division with
   17  jurisdiction over guardianship matters finds that it is not in
   18  the child’s best interests. If one parent dies, the surviving
   19  parent remains the sole natural guardian even if he or she
   20  remarries. If the marriage between the parents is dissolved, the
   21  natural guardianship belongs to the parent to whom sole parental
   22  responsibility has been granted, or if the parents have been
   23  granted shared parental responsibility, both continue as natural
   24  guardians. If the marriage is dissolved and neither parent is
   25  given parental responsibility for the child, neither may act as
   26  natural guardian of the child. The mother of a child born out of
   27  wedlock and a father who has paternity established under s.
   28  742.011 or s.
   29  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 10 - 11
   32  and insert:
   33         a certain action; amending s.