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Senate passes wide-ranging protective-order reforms after fatal case prompted work group
Summary
Senate sponsor described SB 27 as the product of extensive stakeholder work to expand protective-order eligibility to consensual intimate partners, set a 10-year default expiration for protective orders, and add workplace and rural-community provisions; the Senate passed the bill and sent it to the House.
Senator Weiler presented Senate Bill 27, a comprehensive set of amendments to protective-order, stalking and injunction statutes developed by an extensive work group after a June fatal shooting raised concerns that victims had been unable to obtain protective orders.
Weiler told the Senate the bill extends access to protective orders to people in consensual intimate relationships who previously…
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