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Legislation would centralize HOPE card issuance to ease carrying protection orders
Summary
House Bill 1460 would shift issuance of small, portable protection‑order "HOPE" cards from local courts to the Administrative Office of the Courts and narrow the data printed on the card to core identifying items and case identifiers.
House Bill 1460, intended to make civil protection orders more portable for people seeking safety, was presented to the Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee on Jan. 28.
The bill would move responsibility for issuing HOPE cards — wallet‑sized summaries that accompany a protection order — from the issuing courts to the Administrative Office of the Courts and eliminate the statutory requirement that the card be issued in a scannable electronic format. Under the bill the card would…
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