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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5199

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators West, Roach, Johnson and Madsen).

 

Read first time February 26, 1991.Making assaults on staff at state hospitals for the mentally ill a class C felony.


     AN ACT Relating to assaults on staff at state institutions; amending RCW 9A.36.100; and providing penalties.

 

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

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.36.100 and 1988 c 151 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A person is guilty of custodial assault if that person is not guilty of an assault in the first or second degree and where the person:

     (a) Assaults a full or part-time staff member or volunteer, any educational personnel, any personal service provider, or any vendor or agent thereof at any juvenile corrections institution or local juvenile detention facilities who was performing official duties at the time of the assault;

     (b) Assaults a full or part-time staff member or volunteer, any educational personnel, any personal service provider, or any vendor or agent thereof at any adult corrections institution or local adult detention facilities who was performing official duties at the time of the assault;

     (c)(i) Assaults a full or part-time community correction officer while the officer is performing official duties; or

     (ii) Assaults any other full or part-time employee who is employed in a community corrections office while the employee is performing official duties; ((or))

     (d) Assaults a full or part-time staff member or volunteer, any educational personnel, any personal service provider, or any vendor or vendor's agent at any state hospital for the mentally ill who was performing official duties at the time of the assault; or

     (e) Assaults any volunteer who was assisting a person described in (c) of this subsection at the time of the assault.

     (2) Custodial assault is a class C felony.