Senate Bill sb0200

    Florida Senate - 2006        (Corrected Copy)           SB 200

    By Senator Aronberg





    27-138-06

  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; providing an

  7         effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section

12  784.046, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         784.046  Action by victim of repeat violence, sexual

14  violence, or dating violence for protective injunction; powers

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

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

17  statewide verification system; enforcement.--

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

19  injunction for protection in cases of repeat violence, there

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

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

22  separate cause of action for an injunction for protection in

23  cases of sexual violence.

24         (a)  Any person who is the victim of repeat violence,

25  or the parent or legal guardian of any minor child who is

26  living at home and who seeks an injunction for protection

27  against repeat violence on behalf of the minor child, or any

28  governmental employer of any person who is the victim of

29  repeat violence in a public workplace who seeks an injunction

30  for protection against repeat violence on behalf of the

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

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    Florida Senate - 2006        (Corrected Copy)           SB 200
    27-138-06




 1  petition for an injunction for protection against repeat

 2  violence.

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

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 8    Provides for a governmental employer to file, on behalf
      of an employee, a petition for an injunction for
 9    protection against repeat violence.

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