A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the punishment for a charge of assaulting a law enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer that is discharging or attempting to discharge the officer's duties and where serious bodily injury is inflicted and to create a related criminal charge for instances when an officer's serious bodily injury is caused by an individual resisting, delaying, or obstructing the officer.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑34.7(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person is guilty of a Class E felony if the person 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 serious bodily injury on the officer."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 14‑223 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14‑223.  Resisting officers.
Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person who willfully and unlawfully resists, delays, or obstructs a public officer in discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his or her office is guilty of the following:
(1)	A Class E felony if the person inflicts serious bodily injury on the officer.
(2)	A Class H felony if the person inflicts physical injury on the officer.
(3)	A Class 2 misdemeanor for any other violation of this section."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2019.