Florida 2025 Regular Session Status: In Committee Bipartisan · 4 D · 1 I cosponsors

SB 308 — Injunctions for Protection in Cases of Repeat or Serious Violence

Last action — Died in Criminal Justice

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
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    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Injunctions for Protection in Cases of Repeat or Serious Violence; Replacing the term “repeat violence” with the term “repeat or serious violence”; defining the term “repeat or serious violence”; expanding the grounds for an existing cause of action for an injunction of protection to include serious violence in addition to repeat violence; revising the name of an existing cause of action to an injunction for protection in cases of repeat or serious violence, rather than in cases of repeat violence, etc.

Bill Text

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The bill amends Florida law to broaden the definition of violence for protective injunctions by replacing 'repeat violence' with 'repeat or serious violence' and expanding the grounds for obtaining such injunctions.

  • Section 784.046

    the term “repeat violence” → the term “repeat or serious violence”

    The terminology is updated to include both repeat and serious violence.

  • Section 784.046

    action for an injunction for protection in cases of repeat violence → action for an injunction for protection in cases of repeat or serious violence

    The cause of action for injunctions is revised to cover serious violence.

  • Section 784.046

    “repeat or serious violence” means:

    A definition for 'repeat or serious violence' is established.

  • Section 784.046

    1. Two incidents of violence or stalking committed by the respondent, one of which must have been within 6 months of the filing of the petition, which are directed against the petitioner or the petitioner’s immediate family member; 2. One act committed by the respondent that causes bodily injury to the petitioner; 3. A death threat committed by the respondent against the petitioner.

    The criteria for what constitutes 'repeat or serious violence' are specified.

Action History

  1. Died in Criminal Justice

  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration

  3. Introduced

  4. Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy

  5. Filed

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 4 co-sponsors · 159 not signed on

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Co-sponsors (4)

Not signed on (159)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 308 do?
Injunctions for Protection in Cases of Repeat or Serious Violence; Replacing the term “repeat violence” with the term “repeat or serious violence”; defining the term “repeat or serious violence”; expanding the grounds for an existing cause of action for an injunction of protection to include serious violence in addition to repeat violence; revising the name of an existing cause of action to an injunction for protection in cases of repeat or serious violence, rather than in cases of repeat violence, etc.
Who sponsors SB 308?
SB 308 is sponsored by Bernard, Mack (Democrat), Pizzo, Jason W. B. (No Party Affiliation), Rouson, Darryl Ervin (Democrat), Sharief, Barbara (Democrat), and Smith, Carlos Guillermo (Democrat).
What is the current status of SB 308?
This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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