Commission duties.

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  • (1) promote coalitions and collaborative efforts to uphold and encourage a strong and healthy culture of strong and lasting marriages and stable families;
  • (2) contribute to greater awareness of the importance of marriage in an effort to reduce divorce and unwed parenthood in the state;
  • (3) promote public policies that support marriage;
  • (4) promote programs and activities that educate individuals and couples on how to achieve strong, successful, and lasting marriages, including promoting and assisting in the offering of:
    • (a) events;
    • (b) classes and services, including those designed to promote strong, healthy, and lasting marriages and prevent domestic violence;
    • (c) marriage and relationship education conferences for the public and professionals; and
    • (d) enrichment seminars;
  • (5) actively promote measures designed to maintain and strengthen marriage, family, and the relationships between spouses and parents and children;
  • (6) support volunteerism and private financial contributions and grants in partnership with the commission and in support of the commission's purposes and activities for the benefit of the state as provided in this section;
  • (7) regularly publicize information on premarital counseling and education services available in the state that comply with Section 30-1-34;
  • (8) approve an online course meeting the requirements of Section 30-1-34; and
  • (9) for purposes of Section 30-1-34, recognize one or more national organizations that certify family life educators.




Technically renumbered to avoid duplication of section number also enacted in HB297, Chapter 179.


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