Assaulting protective services workers and other professionals engaged in their duties is now a specific crime.

This bill amends Hawaii law to create specific offenses for assaulting various professionals while they are performing their duties. It adds new categories of professionals, including protective services workers, emergency medical services providers, educational workers, and others, to the list of those protected from assault while engaged in their duties. The bill also specifies that causing bodily injury to these professionals with a dangerous instrument or a simulated firearm is a more severe offense.

Assaulting protective services workers and other professionals engaged in their duties is now a specific crime.

This bill amends Hawaii law to create specific offenses for assaulting various professionals while they are performing their duties. It adds new categories of professionals, including protective services workers, emergency medical services providers, educational workers, and others, to the list of those protected from assault while engaged in their duties. The bill also specifies that causing bodily injury to these professionals with a dangerous instrument or a simulated firearm is a more severe offense.