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Oklahoma Legislature· SB 369Approved by Governor 05/03/2025

An act relating to assault and battery, the official text

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1                    STATE OF OKLAHOMA

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2                 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

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3 SENATE BILL 369                By: Hines

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6                                AS INTRODUCED

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7   An Act relating to assault and battery; amending 21

7   O.S. 2021, Section 650, which relates to aggravated

8   assault and battery upon a peace officer; modifying

8   scope of certain unlawful act; defining term;

9   updating statutory language; and providing an

9   effective date.

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1 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

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13  SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY    21 O.S. 2021, Section 650, is

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1 4 amended to read as follows:

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15  Section 650. A. Every person who, without justifiable or

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1 6 excusable cause, knowingly commits any aggravated assault and

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1 7 battery upon the person of a police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff

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1 8 or, highway patrolman, corrections personnel as defined in Section

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1 9 649 of this title, or any state peace officer employed by any state

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2 0 or federal governmental agency to enforce state laws, while the

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2 1 officer is in the performance of his or her duties shall, upon

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2 2 conviction thereof, be guilty of a felony, which shall be punishable

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2 3 by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for

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1 not more than life or by, a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars

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2 ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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3   B. Every person who, without justifiable or excusable cause,

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4 commits any aggravated assault and battery upon a person that the

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5 violator knows or should reasonably know is a police officer,

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6 sheriff, deputy sheriff or, highway patrolman, corrections personnel

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7 as defined in Section 649 of this title, or any state peace officer

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8 employed by any state or federal governmental agency to enforce

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9 state laws, that results in maiming as defined in Section 751 of

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1 0 this title, while the officer is in the performance of his or her

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1 1 duties shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by

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1 2 imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections of for

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1 3 not less than five (5) years nor more than life or by, a fine not

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1 4 exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by both such fine

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1 5 and imprisonment.

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16  C. For purposes of this section, aggravated assault and battery

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1 7 upon law officers, includes the:

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18  1. The physical contact with and in an attempt to gain control

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1 9 of the firearm; or

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20  2. The strangulation,

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2 1 of any police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, highway patrolman,

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2 2 corrections personnel as defined in Section 649 of this title, or

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2 3 any peace officer employed by any state or federal governmental

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2 4 agency to enforce state laws.

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1   As used in this subsection, "strangulation" shall have the same

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2 meaning as provided in subsection J of Section 644 of this title.

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3   D. This section shall not supersede any other act or acts, but

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5   SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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