AB 147

Under current law, no person may intentionally cause bodily harm to a law

enforcement officer acting in an official capacity, if the actor knows or has reason to

know that the victim is a law enforcement officer. Under current law, no one may

intentionally cause or threaten bodily harm to a judge or a member of a judge's family

if the person knows that the person harmed or threatened is a judge or a family

member of the judge and the person who causes or threatens harm does so while the

judge is acting in his or her official capacity or as a response to an official action by

the judge. A person who commits any of these acts is guilty of a Class H felony and

may be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than six years, or both.

Under this bill, a person who intentionally causes or threatens bodily harm to

a judge, a prosecutor, or a law enforcement officer, or who intentionally causes or

threatens bodily harm to a family member of any of those persons, is guilty of Class

H felony if the person knows or should know that the victim is a judge, prosecutor,

law enforcement officer, or family member of any of those, if the person commits the

offense in response to any action taken in the judge's, prosecutor's, or law

enforcement officer's official capacity, or if the person commits the offense while the

judge, prosecutor, or law enforcement officer is acting in his or her official capacity.