Bill > SB190

This bill clarifies and redefines offenses related to assaulting or battering certain public servants, creating a new section specifically for law-enforcement officers, correctional employees, and emergency medical service personnel, while consolidating offenses against government representatives, health care workers, and utility workers into a separate section. The bill defines "government representative" to exclude those covered by the new section, and "health care worker" and "utility worker" are also defined. The offenses include malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery, and assault, with varying penalties depending on the severity of the act and whether it's a repeat offense, and importantly, the new section explicitly states that convictions for assaulting a correctional employee under these circumstances cannot run concurrently with other sentences.

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