Florida Senate - 2025                              CS for SB 472
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Fiscal Policy; and Senator Truenow
       
       
       
       
       
       594-02944-25                                           2025472c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to education in correctional
    3         facilities for professional licensure; amending s.
    4         944.801, F.S.; requiring the Correctional Education
    5         Program to design and implement a plan, in
    6         coordination with the boards of professions regulated
    7         by the Department of Business and Professional
    8         Regulation, or the department when there is no board,
    9         for inmates who take certain classes to receive credit
   10         towards licensure requirements; providing an effective
   11         date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Paragraph (m) is added to subsection (3) of
   16  section 944.801, Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         944.801 Education for state prisoners.—
   18         (3) The responsibilities of the Correctional Education
   19  Program shall be to:
   20         (m) Design and implement a plan, in coordination with the
   21  relevant professional boards regulated by the Department of
   22  Business and Professional Regulation, or the Department of
   23  Business and Professional Regulation when there is no board, to
   24  ensure that inmates in a correctional institution who take
   25  classes that meet the necessary curriculum requirements as
   26  determined by the applicable laws and rules for those
   27  professions shall receive credit toward licensure requirements
   28  for the successful completion of those classes.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.