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Fla. Stat. § 948.31 (2025)
Evaluation and treatment of sexual predators and offenders on probation or community control.
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948.31 Evaluation and treatment of sexual predators and offenders on probation or community control.—The court may require any probationer or community controllee who is required to register as a sexual predator under s. 775.21 or sexual offender under s. 943.0435, s. 944.606, or s. 944.607 to undergo an evaluation, at the probationer or community controllee’s expense, by a qualified practitioner to determine whether such probationer or community controllee needs sexual offender treatment. If the qualified practitioner determines that sexual offender treatment is needed and recommends treatment, the probationer or community controllee must successfully complete and pay for the treatment. Such treatment must be obtained from a qualified practitioner as defined in s. 948.001. Treatment may not be administered by a qualified practitioner who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of committing, or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit, any offense that is listed in s. 943.0435(1)(h)1.a.(I).
History.—s. 1, ch. 81-198; s. 3, ch. 83-75; s. 16, ch. 83-131; s. 192, ch. 83-216; s. 37, ch. 89-526; s. 4, ch. 91-280; s. 13, ch. 99-201; s. 3, ch. 2000-246; s. 17, ch. 2004-373; s. 32, ch. 2008-172; s. 13, ch. 2010-92; s. 16, ch. 2014-4; s. 61, ch. 2016-24; s. 14, ch. 2016-104; s. 28, ch. 2021-156; ss. 52, 80, 86, 95, ch. 2025-156.
Note.—Former s. 948.03(4).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2008–2016 · leading case: Victor Villanueva v. State of Florida, 200 So. 3d 47 (Fla. 2016).
Victor Villanueva v. State of Florida, 200 So. 3d 47 (Fla. 2016). “Section 948.31, Florida Statutes, which grants a trial court the discretion to order the evaluation of and treatment for certain sex offenders, is yet a third possible statute upon which the trial court could have relied when it ordered Villanueva to participate in “MDSO therapy.”
Adams v. State, 979 So. 2d 921 (Fla. 2008). “(2007) (emphasis added); see also § 948.31, Fla. Stat. (2007) (providing for diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of offenders placed on probation or community control for certain sex offenses or child exploitation, including a requirement that the court be provided a "plan for…”
Victor Villanueva v. State of Florida (Fla. 2016). “Section 948.31, Florida Statutes, which grants a trial court the discretion to order the evaluation of and treatment for certain sex offenders, is yet a third possible statute upon which the trial court could have relied when it ordered Villanueva to participate in “MDSO therapy.”
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