A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to add a penalty for assault inflicting physical injury on law enforcement, probation or parole officers, or detention personnel.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑34.7 is amended to add a new subsection to read:
"(c)	Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person is guilty of a Class I felony if the person does either of the following:
(1)	Assaults a law enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer while the officer is discharging or attempting to discharge his or her official duties and inflicts physical injury on the officer.
(2)	Assaults a person who is employed at a detention facility operated under the jurisdiction of the State or a local government while the employee is in the performance of the employee's duties and inflicts physical injury on the employee.
For the purposes of this subsection, "physical injury" includes cuts, scrapes, bruises, or other physical injury which does not constitute serious injury."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.