BILL NUMBER: AB 2587INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Knight FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to amend Section 836.6 of the Penal Code, relating to crime. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2587, as introduced, Knight. Crime: escape. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person who has been lawfully arrested by any peace officer and who knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, that he or she has been lawfully arrested by a peace officer, to thereafter escape or attempt to escape from that peace officer. A person who violates this provision is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year. If the escape or attempted escape is by force or violence, and the person proximately causes a peace officer serious bodily injury, existing law requires that the person be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years, as specified, or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provision making it unlawful for any person who has been lawfully arrested by any peace officer and who knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, that he or she has been lawfully arrested by that peace officer, to thereafter escape or attempt to escape from that peace officer. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 836.6 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 836.6. (a) It is unlawful for any person who is remanded by a magistrate or judge of any court in this state to the custody of a sheriff, marshal, or other police agency, to thereafter escape or attempt to escape from that custody. (b) It is unlawful for any person who has been lawfully arrested by any peace officer and who knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, that he or she has beensolawfully arrested by that peace officer , to thereafter escape or attempt to escape from that peace officer. (c) Any person who violates subdivision (a) or (b) is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year. However, if the escape or attempted escape is by force or violence, and the person proximately causes a peace officer serious bodily injury, the person shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three, or four years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year.