AB 1718: Elder abuse.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is not a caretaker any person to violate specified laws proscribing theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity theft with respect to the property or identifying information of an elder or dependent adult, knowing that he or she is an elder or dependent adult. Existing law makes a violation of that provision those provisions punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony in county jail, as prescribed, when the moneys, labor, goods, services, or real or personal property taken or obtained is of a value exceeding $950.

This bill would instead make a violation of that provision those provisions punishable as a misdemeanor in county jail or as a felony in state prison, as prescribed.