SB3580 Summary

• Expands the definition of "domestic violence" to include abuse by present or prior dating or sexual partners, not limited to family or household members.

• Defines "dating or sexual partner" as a present or prior partner in a dating, sexual, or engagement relationship, regardless of duration, seriousness, intimacy, or romantic focus.

• Extends domestic violence protections to include victims abused by dating or sexual partners, and to relatives of victims abused by dating or sexual partners of family members.

• Makes evidence of prior convictions for aggravated battery against a dating or sexual partner admissible in subsequent prosecutions for similar offenses against the same victim.