BILL REQ. #:  S-1134.1 

READ FIRST TIME 02/22/13.   

     AN ACT Relating to assault of a corrections officer, law enforcement officer, community corrections officer, or an employee responsible for the supervision of a sentenced offender in a detention facility; amending RCW 9A.36.011; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 9A.36.011 and 1997 c 196 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) A person is guilty of assault in the first degree if he or she((,)):
     (a) With intent to inflict great bodily harm:
     (((a))) (i) Assaults another with a firearm or any deadly weapon or by any force or means likely to produce great bodily harm or death; or
     (((b))) (ii) Administers, exposes, or transmits to or causes to be taken by another, poison, the human immunodeficiency virus as defined in chapter 70.24 RCW, or any other destructive or noxious substance; or
     (((c))) (iii) Assaults another and inflicts great bodily harm; or
     (b) Assaults, with a deadly weapon, a corrections officer, law enforcement officer, community corrections officer, or an employee responsible for the supervision of a sentenced offender in a detention facility who was performing his or her official duties at the time of the assault, and the person knew or had reason to know that the victim was a corrections officer, law enforcement officer, community corrections officer, or an employee responsible for the supervision of a sentenced offender in a detention facility.
     (2) Assault in the first degree is a class A felony.