Bill Text: CA SB689 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Crimes: sporting events.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB689 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB689-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
May 02, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 29, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 689 |
Introduced by Senator Wiener (Coauthor: Senator Nguyen) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Chiu, Daly, Gomez, and Maienschein) |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit battery against a sports official immediately prior to, during, or immediately following an organized athletic contest in which the sports official is participating.
This bill would make it a misdemeanor to commit battery against a player immediately prior to, during, or immediately following an organized athletic contest in which the player is participating. The bill would define the term “player” to include any authorized participant of play, including, but not limited to, team members and support staff. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)If a battery is committed against a sports official or player immediately prior to, during, or immediately following an interscholastic, intercollegiate, or any other organized amateur or professional athletic contest in which the sports official or player is participating, and the person who commits the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is engaged in the
performance of his or her duties, the offense shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(b)For purposes of this section, “sports official” means any individual who serves as a referee, umpire, linesman, or who serves in a similar capacity but may be known by a different title or name and is duly registered by, or a member of, a local, state, regional, or national organization engaged in part in providing education and training to sports officials.
(c)For purposes of this section, “player” means any authorized participant of play, including, but not limited to, team members, however designated, and support staff, whether or not any of those persons receive
compensation.