Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 472
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/27/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Truenow) 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. Paragraph (m) is added to subsection (3) of
    6  section 944.801, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         944.801 Education for state prisoners.—
    8         (3) The responsibilities of the Correctional Education
    9  Program shall be to:
   10         (m) Design and implement a plan, in coordination with the
   11  relevant professional boards regulated by the Department of
   12  Business and Professional Regulation, or the Department of
   13  Business and Professional Regulation when there is no board, to
   14  ensure that inmates in a correctional institution who take
   15  classes that meet the necessary curriculum requirements as
   16  determined by the applicable laws and rules for those
   17  professions shall receive credit toward licensure requirements
   18  for the successful completion of those classes.
   19         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   21  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   24  and insert:
   25                        A bill to be entitled                      
   26         An act relating to education in correctional
   27         facilities for licensed professionals; amending s.
   28         944.801, F.S.; requiring the Correctional Education
   29         Program to develop a plan in conjunction with the
   30         boards of professions regulated by the Department of
   31         Business and Professional Regulation, or the
   32         department when there is no board, for inmates to take
   33         classes for credit towards licensure requirements;
   34         providing an effective date.