Military Protection Orders

The bill requires a peace officer who responds to an incident of domestic violence to determine whether one of the parties is a current member of the armed forces. If so, the peace officer is required to search the national crime information center database to determine whether a military protection order has been issued against one of the parties. If a military protection order has been issued against a party, the bill requires the peace officer to notify the military law enforcement agency that entered the protection order into the database.

The bill includes the existence of a military protection order as relevant evidence that the court shall consider when determining whether to issue a temporary civil protection order.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)