AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
     Amend KRS 508.025 relating to assault in the third degree to make assaulting a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, nurse practitioner, certified registered nurse anesthetist, respiratory therapist, laboratory technician, radiology technician, or social worker providing services in the emergency room of a hospital a Class D felony; amend KRS 508.078 relating to terroristic threatening in the second degree to include the persons specified above and emergency medical services persons in the emergency room of a hospital a Class D felony.

     (Prefiled by the sponsor(s).)

     Jan 4-introduced in Senate; to Judiciary (S)