STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1598

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Senator BAER)

ADOPTED: JUNE 19, 1997

      This bill would criminalize throwing bodily fluids at an employee of the Department of Corrections. This amendment would clarify that an offense under the bill could only occur if the employee of the Department of Corrections was in the performance of his duties. This amendment would also delete the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment proposed in the bill.