HCS/HB 736 - This act modifies the definitions of "adult" and "child" in provisions relating to orders of protection. An "adult" is any person eighteen, instead of seventeen, years of age or older and a "child" is any person under eighteen, instead of seventeen, years of age unless he or she is otherwise emancipated. This act is identical to provisions in SB 755 (2025), SB 284 (2025), SCS/HCS/HBs 1706 & 1539 (2024), SB 897 (2024), CCS/HCS/SS/SCS/SB 72 (2023), HCS/HB 355 (2023), HB 981 (2023), SCS/HCS/HBs 994, 52 & 984 (2023), and HCS/HB 1559 (2022). SARAH HASKINS
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