Battery: security officers and custodial officers.

Existing law establishes the crime of battery against, among other persons, any one of several specified public safety officers, or a physician or nurse rendering emergency medical care, when the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is such a person. The crime is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment when an injury is not inflicted on the victim. This bill would add security officers and custody assistants to those lists of persons against whom the commission of a battery that does not result in an injury to the victim will be punishable by the penalties described above. The bill would define a security officer and a custody assistant for purposes of these provisions, as specified. Because the bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 243 of the Penal Code made by AB 109, which has been chaptered but is not yet operative. The bill would also incorporate additional changes proposed by SB 390 to become operative only if this bill and SB 390 are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last. 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.