FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 352
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR GRIESHEIMER.
Read 1st time January 27, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1298S.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 565, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to assault committed in a hospital or trauma center, with penalty provisions.
Section A.Chapter 565, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 565.078, to read as follows:
565.078.1.A person commits the crime of assault while on the property of a hospital emergency room, or trauma center if the person:
(1)Knowingly causes physical injury to another person performing his or her official duties;
(2)With criminal negligence, causes physical injury to another person performing his or her official duties, by means of a deadly weapon; or
(3)Recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death or serious physical injury to another person performing his or her official duties; and
(4)The act occurred on hospital emergency room, or trauma center property, or in a vehicle that at the time of the act was in the service of a hospital emergency room, or trauma center.
2.Assault while on the property of a hospital emergency room, or a trauma center is a class D felony.