Transit Worker Assault & Funding for Training

The bill creates a specific criminal offense related to assault of a transit worker and clarifies that incidental contact by a transit worker with a fluid or material for the purposes of cleaning, as a result of public indecency, is not assault as defined by the bill. The bill also adds regional transportation district transit police officers to the list of law enforcement officials who can access the peace officer training and support fund and gives an eligible law enforcement agency the option to provide the regional transportation district funds from the peace officer training and support fund for law enforcement safety and training purposes.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)