Florida SB 682: Lost or Abandoned Property

Bill Text

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Domestic Violence and Protective Injunctions 
2026-02-20T11:17:05Z 
Providing enhanced penalties for committing a domestic violence offense if a person has a prior conviction for domestic violence; authorizing, and in certain circumstances requiring, a court to order electronic monitoring in domestic violence cases; revising the information contained in a petition for injunction for protection against domestic violence; increasing the maximum payment amounts for relocation assistance for victims of domestic violence, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for SB 682 

 By the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; 
 the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senators Calatayud and 
 Berman 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to domestic violence and protective 
 3 injunctions; amending s. 741.28, F.S.; defining the 
 4 terms “electronic monitoring” and “military protective 
 5 order”; creating s. 741.2801, F.S.; defining the term 
 6 “conviction”; providing enhanced penalties for 
 7 committing a domestic violence offense if a person has 
 8 a prior conviction for domestic violence; providing 
 9 that sentencing and incentive gain-time eligibility 
 10 determinations are made without regard to a penalty 
 11 enhancement; amending s. 741.281, F.S.; authorizing, 
 12 and in certain circumstances requiring, a court to 
 13 order electronic monitoring in domestic violence 
 14 cases; amending s. 741.30, F.S.; revising the 
 15 information contained in a petition for injunction for 
 16 protection against domestic violence; revising the 
 17 factors a judge may consider in determining whether to 
 18 grant a petition for injunction against domestic 
 19 violence; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement 
 20 to enter injunctions against dating violence and 
 21 sexual violence into a statewide verification system; 
 22 amending s. 741.31, F.S.; authorizing, and in certain 
 23 circumstances requiring, a court to order electronic 
 24 monitoring for a respondent to an injunction for 
 25 protection against domestic violence; requiring the 
 26 respondent to pay for such electronic monitoring 
 27 services; requiring a law enforcement officer to make 
 28 a specified notification if he or she has probable 
 29 cause to believe that a person violated a military 
 30 protective order; amending s. 784.047, F.S.; 
 31 authorizing, and in certain circumstances requiring, a 
 32 court to order electronic monitoring for a respondent 
 33 in an injunction for protection against dating 
 34 violence, repeat violence, or sexual violence; 
 35 requiring the respondent to pay for such electronic 
 36 monitoring services; amending s. 960.198, F.S.; 
 37 increasing the maximum payment amounts for relocation 
 38 assistance for victims of domestic violence; amending 
 39 ss. 921.0024, 943.0584, and 943.171, F.S.; conforming 
 40 cross-references; providing an effective date. 
 41 
 42 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 44 Section 1. Present subsections (3) and (4) of section 
 45 741.28, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4) 
 46 and (5), respectively, and a new subsection (3) and subsection 
 47 (6) are added to that section, to read: 
 48 741.28 Domestic violence; definitions.—As used in ss. 
 49 741.28-741.31: 
 50 (3) “Electronic monitoring” means tracking the location of 
 51 a person through the use of technology that is capable of 
 52 determining or identifying the monitored person’s presence or 
 53 absence at a particular location, including, but not limited to: 
 54 (a) Radio frequency signaling technology, which detects if 
 55 the monitored person is or is not at an approved location and 
 56 notifies the monitoring agency of the time that the monitored 
 57 person either leaves the approved location or tampers with or 
 58 removes the monitoring device; or 
 59 (b) Active or passive global positioning system technology, 
 60 which detects the location of the monitored person and notifies 
 61 the monitoring agency of the monitored person’s location and 
 62 which may also include electronic monitoring with victim 
 63 notification technology that is capable of notifying a victim or 
 64 protected party, either directly or through a monitoring agency, 
 65 if the monitored person enters within the restricted distance of 
 66 a victim or protected party or within the restricted distance of 
 67 a designated location. 
 68 (6) “Military protective order” means a protective order 
 69 issued in accordance with 10 U.S.C. s. 1567 by a commanding 
 70 officer in the Armed Forces of the United States or the National 
 71 Guard of any state against a person under such officer’s 
 72 command. 
 73 Section 2. Section 741.2801, Florida Statutes, is created 
 74 to read: 
 75 741.2801 Domestic violence; enhanced penalties.— 
 76 (1) As used in this s