Bill > AB2097

This bill amends existing California law to specifically criminalize strangulation, defining it as knowingly impeding normal breathing or blood flow by applying pressure to the throat, neck, or chest, or by obstructing the nose or mouth. This new offense, which applies to victims in specified relationships with the offender such as spouses, cohabitants, or parents of the offender's child, carries the same penalties as the existing crime of inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, including imprisonment in state prison for two, three, or four years, or a jail sentence of up to one year, along with potential fines. The bill also clarifies that "traumatic condition" can include injury from strangulation or suffocation, and it notes that no state reimbursement is required for local agencies because the bill creates a new crime.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2097