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An act relating to injunctions for protection; amending s. 784.046, F.S.; 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; specifying the persons who have standing to file such injunction for protection in circuit court if specified conditions are met; 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 provide the petitioner with a certified copy of such injunction for protection; providing requirements for such petition for injunction for protection; providing requirements for a temporary or final judgment on 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; providing requirements for inclusion of such injunction for protection in a specified statewide communication system; requiring that a respondent be held in custody if he or she is arrested for committing an act of serious violence by a known person in violation of an injunction for protection until being brought before the court; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; making technical changes; amending ss. 44.407, 61.13, 61.1825, 394.4597, 394.4598, 741.313, 784.047, 784.048, and 934.03, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; reenacting ss. 28.2221 (8)(a), (c), and (d), 28.35(2)(i), 57.105(8), 61.1827(1), 741.311(2), 741.315(2), 790.401(2)(e) and (3)(c), 901.15(6), 901.41(5), 921.141(6)(p), 921.1425(7)(j), 921.1427(7)(i), and 934.425(3), F.S.; relating to electronic access to official records, Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation, the awarding of attorney fees, identifying information concerning applicants for and recipients of child support services, Hope Card Program for persons issued orders of protection, recognition of foreign protection orders, risk protection orders, when arrest by a law enforcement officer without a warrant is lawful, prearrest diversion programs, aggravating factors relating to a sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital felonies, aggravating factors relating to a sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital sexual battery, aggravating factors relating to a sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation, and installation or use of tracking devices or applications, respectively, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 784.046, F.S., in references thereto; providing an effective date.

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Barbara Sharief (D)*,  Lori Berman (D),  Mack Bernard (D),  Tracie Davis (D),  Rosalind Osgood (D), 

Other Sponsors (1)

In Messages (on 02/19/2026)

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