HB332 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Feb 22, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Allen TreadawayRepresentative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Crimes and offenses, to further provide for assault in the second degree, Sec. 13A-6-21 am'd.
Summary: HB332 expands Alabama's second-degree assault law to cover more acts and protections for certain workers, while clarifying its status under local-funding rules.
What This Bill Does
The bill adds new circumstances that would qualify as assault in the second degree, including harming peace officers and other designated workers while performing duties, injuring people with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, and certain actions involving health care workers, teachers, utility workers, and public transit operators. It also creates specific definitions and clarifications, and maintains assault in the second degree as a Class C felony. Additionally, it notes the bill is exempt from local-funding restrictions under Amendment 621 because it defines a new crime or amends an existing crime, and it sets an effective date after passage and governor approval.

Who It Affects
Victims and potential victims: peace officers, detention/correctional officers, emergency medical personnel, utility workers, firefighters, health care workers, teachers and public school employees, and public transit operators would be protected under the expanded assault provisions and could be victims of second-degree assault.
Offenders: individuals who commit the acts described in the new provisions could be charged with assault in the second degree, a Class C felony.

Key Provisions
Amends Section 13A-6-21 to add new circumstances under which a person commits assault in the second degree, including intent or recklessness causing serious physical injury, and injury by a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
Adds specific categories: assault to prevent a peace officer or other workers from performing duties; assault on health care workers and teachers during duties; assault involving administering drugs to impair; and assault on public transportation operators.
Defines utility worker for the purposes of the statute and clarifies related terms.
Declares assault in the second degree a Class C felony.
States the bill is exempt from Amendment 621 local-funding requirements because it defines a new crime or amends an existing crime.
Sets the effective date as the first day of the third month after passage and governor's approval.

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Subjects: Crimes and Offenses