This bill:

• modifies the venue for a criminal action;
• clarifies the definition of cohabitant for the battered person mitigation statute;
• defines and modifies terms related to domestic violence, including expanding the definition of a domestic violence offense;
• addresses the right to bail for a domestic violence offense;
• clarifies a term regarding a predominant aggressor when a law enforcement officer is responding to multiple incidents of domestic violence;
• modifies the requirements for responding to an allegation of a domestic violence offense;
• amends the appearance requirements for a domestic violence offense;
• clarifies and amends definitions for protective order statutes, including the definition of cohabitant;
• amends the requirements for a workplace violence protective order;
• provides that a jail release agreement may not prohibit an individual arrested or cited for the commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child from communicating with a minor child in certain circumstances;
• prohibits a parent from waiving the conditions of a jail release agreement when the minor child is the alleged victim and the parent was arrested or cited for the qualifying offense;
• makes technical and conforming changes;
• includes a coordination clause to modify a definition if this bill and H.B. 221, Coercion Amendments, both pass and become law; and
• includes a coordination clause to modify a definition if this bill and H.B. 90, Sexual Offenses Amendments, both pass and become law.