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    Florida Senate - 2005                            CS for SB 512

    By the Committee on Children and Families; and Senator
    Aronberg




    586-1757-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to protective injunctions;

  3         amending s. 784.046, F.S.; providing standing

  4         for a governmental employer to seek an

  5         injunction for protection against repeat

  6         violence on behalf of an employee; revising the

  7         application of evidentiary requirements with

  8         respect to injunctions for protection of minor

  9         children; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and

14  paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 784.046, Florida

15  Statutes, are amended to read:

16         784.046  Action by victim of repeat violence, sexual

17  violence, or dating violence for protective injunction; powers

18  and duties of court and clerk of court; filing and form of

19  petition; notice and hearing; temporary injunction; issuance;

20  statewide verification system; enforcement.--

21         (2)  There is created a cause of action for an

22  injunction for protection in cases of repeat violence, there

23  is created a separate cause of action for an injunction for

24  protection in cases of dating violence, and there is created a

25  separate cause of action for an injunction for protection in

26  cases of sexual violence.

27         (a)  Any person who is the victim of repeat violence or

28  the parent or legal guardian of any minor child who is living

29  at home and who seeks an injunction for protection against

30  repeat violence on behalf of the minor child or any

31  governmental employer of any person who is the victim of

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 1  repeat violence in a public workplace who seeks an injunction

 2  for protection against repeat violence on behalf of the

 3  employee has standing in the circuit court to file a sworn

 4  petition for an injunction for protection against repeat

 5  violence.

 6         (4)(a)  The sworn petition shall allege the incidents

 7  of repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence and

 8  shall include the specific facts and circumstances that form

 9  the basis upon which relief is sought. With respect to a minor

10  child who is living at home, the parent or legal guardian

11  seeking the protective injunction on behalf of the minor child

12  must:

13         1.  Have been an eyewitness to, or have direct physical

14  evidence or affidavits from eyewitnesses of, the specific

15  facts and circumstances which form the basis upon which relief

16  is sought, if the party against whom the protective injunction

17  is sought is also a parent, stepparent, or legal guardian of

18  the minor child; or

19         2.  Have reasonable cause to believe that the minor

20  child is a victim of repeat, sexual, or dating violence to

21  form the basis upon which relief is sought, if the party

22  against whom the protective injunction is sought is a person

23  other than a parent, stepparent, or legal guardian of the

24  minor child.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 512

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 4  Provides standing for a governmental employer to seek an
    injunction for protection against repeat violence on behalf of
 5  an employee.

 6  Clarifies that the restrictive evidentiary requirements of law
    with respect to injunctions for protection of minor children
 7  apply only when the person against whom the protective
    injunction is sought is a parent, stepparent, or legal
 8  guardian of the child.

 9  Provides that when a protective injunction is sought for a
    minor child on the basis that the child is a victim of repeat,
10  sexual, or dating violence and the party against whom the
    protective injunction is sought is a person other than a
11  parent, stepparent, or legal guardian of the child, the person
    seeking the protective injunction must have reasonable cause
12  to believe that the minor child is a victim of repeat, sexual,
    or dating violence.
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