Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 472
       
       
        
       By Senator Truenow
       
       
       
       
       
       13-00645-25                                            2025472__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to education in correctional
    3         facilities for licensed professions; amending s.
    4         944.801, F.S.; requiring the Correctional Education
    5         Program to develop a plan in conjunction with the
    6         boards of professions regulated by the Department of
    7         Business and Professional Regulation for inmates to
    8         take classes for credit toward licensure requirements;
    9         providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (m) is added to subsection (3) of
   14  section 944.801, Florida Statutes, to read:
   15         944.801 Education for state prisoners.—
   16         (3) The responsibilities of the Correctional Education
   17  Program shall be to:
   18         (m) Design and implement a plan, in coordination with the
   19  relevant professional boards regulated by the Department of
   20  Business and Professional Regulation, to ensure that inmates in
   21  a correctional institution who take classes that meet the
   22  necessary curriculum requirements as determined by the
   23  applicable laws and rules for those professions shall receive
   24  credit toward licensure requirements for the successful
   25  completion of those classes.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.