Florida 2025 Regular Session Status: In Committee 1 R cosponsors

SB 894 — Faith-based Activities in Batterers’ Intervention Programs

Last action — Died in Judiciary

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
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    Passed Senate
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    Passed House
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Faith-based Activities in Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Authorizing batterers’ intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities; prohibiting required participation in such activities, etc.

Bill Text

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 894 By Senator Rodriguez 40-01765-25 2025894__ A bill to be entitled An act relating to faith-based content in batterers’ intervention programs;
Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 894 By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs;
and Senator Rodriguez 586-02609-25 2025894c1 A bill to be entitled An act relating to faith-based activities in batterers’ intervention programs;
specifying that batterers’ intervention programs may include faith-based content;
authorizing batterers’ intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities;
directing the Department of Children and Families to amend a specified rule to conform;
prohibiting required participation in such activities;
Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 741.325, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
Present subsection (2) of section 741.325, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (3), and a new subsection (2) is added to that section, to read:
741.325 Requirements for batterers’ intervention programs.— (1) A batterers’ intervention program must meet the following requirements:
741.325 Requirements for batterers’ intervention programs.— (2) A batterers’ intervention program may offer supplemental faith-based activities to participants.
(d) The program content shall be based on a cognitive behavioral therapy model or psychoeducational model that addresses tactics of power and control by one person over another.
Participation in such activities may not be required as part of the program.
Program content may include faith-based components.
The Department of Children and Families shall repeal rule 65H-2.017(2)(e), Florida Administrative Code, to conform to this act.
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Action History

  1. Died in Judiciary

  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration

  3. Now in Judiciary

  4. CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time

  5. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  6. CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 1

  7. On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 301 Senate Building

  8. Introduced

  9. Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules

  10. Filed

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2 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 162 not signed on · 1 voted No

Sponsors (2)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (162)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 894 do?
Faith-based Activities in Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Authorizing batterers’ intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities; prohibiting required participation in such activities, etc.
Who sponsors SB 894?
SB 894 is sponsored by Rodriguez, Ana Maria (Republican) and Children, Families, and Elder Affairs.
What is the current status of SB 894?
This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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