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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1280

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                                                                            C 151 L 88

State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

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

Prefiled with Chief Clerk 12/31/87.  Read first time 1/11/88 and referred to Committee on Health Care.

AN ACT Relating to custodial assault; and amending RCW 9A.36.100.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 188, Laws of 1987 and RCW 9A.36.100 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; ((or))

          (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 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.                                                          Passed the House January 25, 1988.

Speaker of the House.

Passed the Senate March 5, 1988.

President of the Senate.