FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 1280

                                  C 151 L 88

BYRepresentatives Braddock, Brooks, Sprenkle, Crane, May and P. King; by request of Department of Corrections

Revising the crime of custodial assault.

House Committe on Health Care

Senate Committee on Health Care & Corrections

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

In 1987 a custodial assault bill was passed that established the offense of custodial assault.  Custodial assault is a class C felony.  This law applied only to assaults occurring in a local detention center or state corrections facility. There is no equal provision in the law, however, for penalizing a person who commits an assault while under the supervision of a community corrections officer or juvenile rehabilitation counselor.

SUMMARY:

The 1987 custodial assault law is amended to provide equal protection for all community corrections officers and juvenile rehabilitation counselors.  A charge of custodial assault may be brought against anyone who assaults a full or part- time community corrections officer, or any full or part-time employee or any volunteer while he or she is performing his or her official duties in any juvenile corrections institution, juvenile detention facility, adult corrections institution or local adult retention facility.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 90   0

      Senate    49     0

EFFECTIVE:June 9, 1988