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 03/24/25 - Amended Senate
 02/18/25 - Introduced

 SB-431 Assault and battery: utility workers.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/03/2025 09:00 PM

SB431:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Corrected
 July 08, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 03, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 431

Introduced by Senator Arreguín
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis and Krell)

February 18, 2025

 An act to amend Sections 241 and 243 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 431, as amended, Arreguín.
 Assault and battery: public utility employees and essential infrastructure utility workers.

Existing law defines an assault as an unlawful attempt, coupled with present ability, to commit a violent injury upon the person of another. Existing law defines a battery as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Under existing law, an assault or battery committed against specified professionals engaged in the performance of their duties, including peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

This bill would make an assault or battery committed against an employee of a public utility or other worker engaged in essential infrastructure work,
 a utility worker, as defined, who is engaged in the performance of their duties punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By expanding the scope of these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 241 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

241.

 (a) An assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment.

(b) When an assault is committed against the person of a parking control officer engaged in the performance of their duties, and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a parking control officer, the assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment.

(c) When an assault is committed against the person of a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical
 technician, lifeguard, process server, traffic officer, code enforcement officer, animal control officer, or search and rescue member member, or utility worker engaged in the performance of their duties, or a physician or nurse engaged in rendering emergency medical care outside a hospital, clinic, or other health care facility, or a physician, nurse, or other health care worker of a hospital engaged in providing services within the emergency department, or a public utility employee or other worker engaged in essential infrastructure work,
 and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, lifeguard, process server, traffic officer, code enforcement officer, animal control officer, or search and rescue member member, or utility worker engaged in the performance of their duties, or a physician or nurse engaged in rendering emergency medical care, or a physician, nurse, or other health care worker of a hospital engaged in providing services within the emergency department, or a public utility employee or other worker engaged in essential infrastructure work, the assault is
 punishable by a