Florida SB 858: Daylight Saving Time

Bill Text

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Protective Injunctions and Protection Orders 
2025-12-10T08:16:12Z 
Requiring a respondent to surrender to the local law enforcement agency all firearms, ammunition, and licenses to carry a concealed weapon or firearm after the issuance of a final judgment on an injunction for protection against domestic violence; providing for return of firearms, ammunition, and licenses to carry a concealed weapon or firearm when a protective injunction is vacated, terminated, or otherwise rendered no longer effective; revising the criminal penalty for a second or subsequent violation of an injunction for protection against domestic violence or a foreign protection order, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-10-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 858 

 By Senator Polsky 

 30-00843A-26 2026858__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to protective injunctions and 
 3 protection orders; amending s. 741.30, F.S.; requiring 
 4 a respondent to surrender to the local law enforcement 
 5 agency all firearms, ammunition, and licenses to carry 
 6 a concealed weapon or firearm after the issuance of a 
 7 final judgment on an injunction for protection against 
 8 domestic violence; providing for the surrender and 
 9 storage of firearms, ammunition, and licenses to carry 
 10 a concealed weapon or firearm after issuance of a 
 11 protective injunction; requiring law enforcement 
 12 agencies to develop certain policies and procedures; 
 13 providing for return of firearms, ammunition, and 
 14 licenses to carry a concealed weapon or firearm when a 
 15 protective injunction is vacated, terminated, or 
 16 otherwise rendered no longer effective; authorizing a 
 17 respondent to elect to transfer all firearms and 
 18 ammunition surrendered or seized by a law enforcement 
 19 agency to another person under certain circumstances; 
 20 amending s. 741.31, F.S.; revising the criminal 
 21 penalty for a second or subsequent violation of an 
 22 injunction for protection against domestic violence or 
 23 a foreign protection order; providing an effective 
 24 date. 
 25 
 26 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 27 
 28 Section 1. Present subsections (9) and (10) of section 
 29 741.30, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (10) 
 30 and (11), respectively, a new subsection (9) is added to that 
 31 section, and paragraph (g) of subsection (6) of that section is 
 32 amended, to read: 
 33 741.30 Domestic violence; injunction; powers and duties of 
 34 court and clerk; petition; notice and hearing; temporary 
 35 injunction; issuance of injunction; statewide verification 
 36 system; enforcement; public records exemption.— 
 37 (6) 
 38 (g) A final judgment on injunction for protection against 
 39 domestic violence entered under this section must, on its face, 
 40 indicate that it is a violation of s. 790.233, and a first 
 41 degree misdemeanor, for the respondent to have in his or her 
 42 care, custody, possession, or control any firearm or ammunition. 
 43 Upon issuance of a final judgment on injunction for protection 
 44 against domestic violence, the court shall order the respondent 
 45 to surrender to the local law enforcement agency all firearms 
 46 and ammunition owned by the respondent in the respondent’s 
 47 custody, control, or possession except as provided in paragraph 
 48 (9)(g), and any license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm 
 49 issued under s. 790.06, held by the respondent. 
 50 (9)(a) Upon issuance of a final judgment on injunction for 
 51 protection against domestic violence, the law enforcement 
 52 officer serving the injunction for protection shall request that 
 53 the respondent immediately surrender all firearms and ammunition 
 54 owned by the respondent in his or her custody, control, or 
 55 possession and any license to carry a concealed weapon or 
 56 firearm issued under s. 790.06, held by the respondent. The law 
 57 enforcement officer shall take possession of all firearms and 
 58 ammunition owned by the respondent, except as provided in 
 59 paragraph (g), and any license to carry a concealed weapon or 
 60 firearm issued under s. 790.06, held by the respondent, which 
 61 are surrendered. Alternatively, if personal service by a law 
 62 enforcement officer is not possible or is not required because 
 63 the respondent was present at the hearing, the respondent must 
 64 surrender any firearms and ammunition owned by the respondent, 
 65 except as provided in paragraph (g), and any license to carry a 
 66 concealed weapon or firearm issued under s. 790.06, held by the 
 67 respondent, in a safe manner to the control of the local law 
 68 enforcement agency immediately after being served with the order 
 69 by service or immediately after the hearing at which the 
 70 respondent was present. Notwithstanding ss. 933.02 and 933.18, a 
 71 law enforcement officer may seek a search warrant from a court 
 72 of