Bill > H1363

This bill proposes to change the legal standard required to issue a harassment protection order when the defendant is 13 years old or younger. Currently, such orders are typically issued if the evidence shows it is more likely than not that harassment occurred, which is known as a "preponderance of the evidence." This bill would require a higher level of proof, called "clear and convincing evidence," to be met before a harassment protection order can be issued against a child aged 13 or younger, meaning the evidence must be highly and substantially more likely to be true than not.