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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
SENATE BILL 1136 By: Rosino
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to crime and punishment; amen ding 21
O.S. 2021, Section 650.8, which relates to felony
assault, battery or assault and b attery upon employee
of facility; allowing for certain felony offense; and
providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA :
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 650.8, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 650.8. A. Every person who, without justifiable or
excusable cause, knowingly commits any assault, batter y or assault
and battery upon the person of an employee of a facilit y maintained
by the Office of Juvenile Affairs, a facility maintained by a
private contractor pursuant to a contract with the Office of
Juvenile Affairs primarily for delinquent children, a juvenile
detention center, or a juvenile bureau, while the employe e is in the
performance of his duties, shall , upon conviction, thereof be guilty
of a felony.
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B. Every person who, without justifiable or excusable cause,
knowingly commits any assault, battery or assault and battery upon
the person of an employee of a fa cility maintained by the Department
of Human Services or a facility maintained by a private contract or
pursuant to a contract with the Department of Human Services, while
the employee is in the per formance of their duties, shall upon
conviction, be guilty of a felony.
C. This section shall not supersede any other act or acts, but
shall be cumulative thereto.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
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