Bill Text: CA AB2121 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Crime: battery: commission: certain properties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-24 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 25. [AB2121 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2121-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2121	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 243.2 of the Penal Code, relating to
crime.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2121, as introduced, Nielsen. Crime: battery: commission:
certain properties.
   Existing law provides, with exceptions, that when a battery is
committed on school property, park property, or the grounds of a
public or private hospital, against any person, the battery is
punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in the
county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and
imprisonment.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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 243.2 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   243.2.  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 243.6,
when a battery is committed on school property, park property, or the
grounds of a public or private hospital, against any person, the
battery is punishable by a fine  of  not  exceeding
  more than  two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both
the fine and imprisonment.
   (2) When a violation of this section is committed by a minor on
school property, the court may, in addition to any other fine,
sentence, or as a condition of probation, order the minor to attend
counseling as deemed appropriate by the court at the expense of the
minor's parents. The court shall take into consideration the ability
of the minor's parents to  pay,   pay; 
however,  no   a  minor shall  not
 be relieved of attending counseling because of the minor's
parents' inability to pay for the counseling imposed by this section.

   (b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (1) "Hospital" means a facility for the diagnosis, care, and
treatment of human illness that is subject to, or specifically
exempted from, the licensure requirements of Chapter 2 (commencing
with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code.
   (2) "Park" means any publicly maintained or operated park. It does
not include any facility when used for professional sports or
commercial events.
   (3) "School" means any elementary school, junior high school,
four-year high school, senior high school, adult school or any branch
thereof, opportunity school, continuation high school, regional
occupational center, evening high school, technical school, or
community college.
   (c) This section shall not apply to conduct arising during the
course of an otherwise lawful labor dispute.