Bill Text: CA SB459 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Crimes: rape: great bodily injury.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 646, Statutes of 2019. [SB459 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB459-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  April 25, 2019

Amended  IN  Senate  March 26, 2019

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 459

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Introduced by Senator Galgiani

February 21, 2019

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An act to amend Sections 12022.7 and Section 12022.8 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 459, as amended, Galgiani. Crimes: rape: great bodily injury.

Existing law generally imposes an additional and consecutive term of 3 years imprisonment in the state prison on a person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person in the commission of a felony. Existing law imposes a 5-year enhancement on the sentence of a person who inflicts great bodily injury during the commission of a rape if the act was committed by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another, or if the act was accomplished against the victim’s will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or another person, or if person. The 5-year enhancement also applies if the victim was not the perpetrator’s spouse and was prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or a controlled substance.

This bill would make the 5-year sentence enhancement for the infliction of great bodily injury applicable to all forms of rape. The bill would also define “great bodily injury” for purposes of these sentence enhancements to include impregnation as a result of sexual intercourse that violates any law. rape committed against a victim who is the perpetrator’s spouse who was prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or a controlled substance. By increasing the punishment for crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

12022.7.

(a)A person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person other than an accomplice in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for three years.

(b)A person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person other than an accomplice in the commission of a felony or attempted felony which causes the victim to become comatose due to brain injury or to suffer paralysis of a permanent nature shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years. As used in this subdivision, “paralysis” means a major or complete loss of motor function resulting from injury to the nervous system or to a muscular mechanism.

(c)A person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person who is 70 years of age or older, other than an accomplice, in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years.

(d)A person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a child under the age of five years in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for four, five, or six years.

(e)A person who personally inflicts great bodily injury under circumstances involving domestic violence in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or five years. As used in this subdivision, “domestic violence” has the meaning provided in subdivision (b) of Section 13700.

(f)As used in this section, “great bodily injury” means a significant or substantial physical injury, including, but limited to, impregnation as a result of sexual intercourse that violates any law.

(g)This section shall not apply to murder or manslaughter or a violation of Section 451 or 452. Subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall not apply if infliction of great bodily injury is an element of the offense.

(h)The court shall impose the additional terms of imprisonment under either subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d), but may not impose more than one of those terms for the same offense.

SEC. 2.SECTION 1.

 Section 12022.8 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

12022.8.

 Any person who inflicts great bodily injury, as defined in Section 12022.7, on any victim in a violation of Section 220 involving a specified sexual offense, or a violation or attempted violation of paragraph (2), (3), or (6) of subdivision (a) of Section 261, paragraph (1), (2), or (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 262, Section 264.1, subdivision (b) of Section 288, subdivision (a) of Section 289, or sodomy or oral copulation by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person as provided in Section 286 or 287, or former Section 288a, shall receive a five-year enhancement for each violation in addition to the sentence provided for the felony conviction.

SEC. 3.SEC. 2.

 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.