Florida SB 32: Relief of L.E. by the Department of Children and Families

Bill Text

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Injunctions for Protection 
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Defining the terms “serious violence by a known person” and “serious bodily injury”; creating a cause of action for an injunction for protection in cases of serious violence by a known person; prohibiting the clerk of the court from assessing a fee for the filing of such injunction for protection; requiring the clerk of the court to electronically transmit copies of specified documents within a certain timeframe after a court issues such injunction for protection; requiring law enforcement officers to accept a certified copy of such injunction for protection from the petitioner and immediately serve it upon a respondent, etc. 
Committee Substitute 1 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for SB 32 

 By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senators Sharief, 
 Osgood, and Berman 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to injunctions for protection; 
 3 amending s. 784.046, F.S.; defining the terms “serious 
 4 violence by a known person” and “serious bodily 
 5 injury”; creating a cause of action for an injunction 
 6 for protection in cases of serious violence by a known 
 7 person; specifying the persons who have standing to 
 8 file such injunction for protection in circuit court 
 9 if specified conditions are met; prohibiting the clerk 
 10 of the court from assessing a fee for the filing of 
 11 such injunction for protection; requiring the clerk of 
 12 the court to provide the petitioner with a certified 
 13 copy of such injunction for protection; providing 
 14 requirements for such petition for injunction for 
 15 protection; providing requirements for a temporary or 
 16 final judgment on such injunction for protection; 
 17 requiring the clerk of the court to electronically 
 18 transmit copies of specified documents within a 
 19 certain timeframe after a court issues such injunction 
 20 for protection; requiring law enforcement officers to 
 21 accept a certified copy of such injunction for 
 22 protection from the petitioner and immediately serve 
 23 it upon a respondent; providing requirements for 
 24 inclusion of such injunction for protection in a 
 25 specified statewide communication system; requiring 
 26 that a respondent be held in custody if he or she is 
 27 arrested for committing an act of serious violence by 
 28 a known person in violation of an injunction for 
 29 protection until being brought before the court; 
 30 conforming provisions to changes made by the act; 
 31 making technical changes; amending ss. 44.407, 61.13, 
 32 61.1825, 394.4597, 394.4598, 741.313, 784.047, 
 33 784.048, and 934.03, F.S.; conforming provisions to 
 34 changes made by the act; reenacting ss. 28.2221 
 35 (8)(a), (c), and (d), 28.35(2)(i), 57.105(8), 
 36 61.1827(1), 741.311(2), 741.315(2), 790.401(2)(e) and 
 37 (3)(c), 901.15(6), 901.41(5), 921.141(6)(p), 
 38 921.1425(7)(j), 921.1427(7)(i), and 934.425(3), F.S.; 
 39 relating to electronic access to official records, 
 40 Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation, the 
 41 awarding of attorney fees, identifying information 
 42 concerning applicants for and recipients of child 
 43 support services, Hope Card Program for persons issued 
 44 orders of protection, recognition of foreign 
 45 protection orders, risk protection orders, when arrest 
 46 by a law enforcement officer without a warrant is 
 47 lawful, prearrest diversion programs, aggravating 
 48 factors relating to a sentence of death or life 
 49 imprisonment for capital felonies, aggravating factors 
 50 relating to a sentence of death or life imprisonment 
 51 for capital sexual battery, aggravating factors 
 52 relating to a sentence of death or life imprisonment 
 53 for capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons 
 54 for sexual exploitation, and installation or use of 
 55 tracking devices or applications, respectively, to 
 56 incorporate the amendment made to s. 784.046, F.S., in 
 57 references thereto; providing an effective date. 
 58 
 59 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 60 
 61 Section 1. Section 784.046, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 62 read: 
 63 784.046 Action by victim of repeat violence, sexual 
 64 violence, or dating violence, or serious violence by a known 
 65 person for protective injunction; dating violence 
 66 investigations, notice to victims, and reporting; pretrial 
 67 release violations; public records exemption.— 
 68 (1) As used in this section, the term: 
 69 (e)(a) “Violence” means any assault, aggravated assault, 
 70 battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, 
 71 stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, or false 
 72 imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical 
 73 injury or death, by a person against any other person. 
 74 (b) “Repeat violence” means two incidents of violence or 
 75 stalking committed by the respondent, one of which must