AB 2078: Sex offenses: professional services.
- Session Year: 2017-2018
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2018-06-21
Under existing law, a person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year or in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, and a fine not to exceed $10,000. Under existing law, the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, when the victim was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration or oral copulation served a professional purpose, are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 8 years.
This bill would expand the crime of sexual battery to apply to a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another persons body and who touches an intimate part of that persons body while performing those services, and the touching was against the persons will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. The bill would expand the definitions of each of the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include any of those crimes performed against a victims will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victims body, if the conduct is performed by the professional while performing those services. By expanding the scope of these crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 288a of the Penal Code proposed by SB 1494 to be operative as specified.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Under existing law, a person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year or in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, and a fine not to exceed $10,000. Under existing law, the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, when the victim was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration or oral copulation served a professional purpose, are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 8 years.
This bill would expand the crime of sexual battery to apply to a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another persons body and who touches an intimate part of that persons body while performing those services, and the touching was against the persons will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. The bill would expand the definitions of each of the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include any of those crimes performed against a victims will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victims body, if the conduct is performed by the professional while performing those services. By expanding the scope of these crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(a)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(b)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person who is institutionalized for medical treatment and who is seriously disabled or medically incapacitated, if the touching is against the will of the person touched, and if the touching is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(c)(1)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery.
(2)Any person who performs professional services that entail having access to another persons body and who touches an intimate part of that person while performing those services, and the touching is against the will of the person touched and for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery.
(3)A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(d)Any person who, for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, causes another, against that persons will while that person is unlawfully restrained either by the accused or an accomplice, or is institutionalized for medical treatment and is seriously disabled or medically incapacitated, to masturbate or touch an intimate part of either of those persons or a third person, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(e)(1)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person, if the touching is against the will of the person touched, and is for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of misdemeanor sexual battery, punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment. However, if the defendant was an employer and the victim was an employee of the defendant, the misdemeanor sexual battery shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars ($3,000), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amount of a fine above two thousand dollars ($2,000) which is collected from a defendant for a violation of this subdivision shall be transmitted to the State Treasury and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, distributed to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing for the purpose of enforcement of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 12900) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), including, but not limited to, laws that proscribe sexual harassment in places of employment. However, in no event shall an amount over two thousand dollars ($2,000) be transmitted to the State Treasury until all fines, including any restitution fines that may have been imposed upon the defendant, have been paid in full.
(2)As used in this subdivision, touches means physical contact with another person, whether accomplished directly, through the clothing of the person committing the offense, or through the clothing of the victim.
(f)As used in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d), touches means physical contact with the skin of another person whether accomplished directly or through the clothing of the person committing the offense.
(g)As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1)Intimate part means the sexual organ, anus, groin, or buttocks of any person, and the breast of a female.
(2)Sexual battery does not include the crimes defined in Section 261 or 289.
(3)Seriously disabled means a person with severe physical or sensory disabilities.
(4)Medically incapacitated means a person who is incapacitated as a result of prescribed sedatives, anesthesia, or other medication.
(5)Institutionalized means a person who is located voluntarily or involuntarily in a hospital, medical treatment facility, nursing home, acute care facility, or mental hospital.
(6)Minor means a person under 18 years of age.
(h)This section does not limit or prevent prosecution under any other law which also proscribes a course of conduct that also is proscribed by this section.
(i)In the case of a felony conviction for a violation of this section, the fact that the defendant was an employer and the victim was an employee of the defendant shall be a factor in aggravation in sentencing.
(j)A person who commits a violation of subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d) against a minor when the person has a prior felony conviction for a violation of this section shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years and a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
SEC. 2.Section 261 of the Penal Code is amended to read:261.(a)Rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouse of the perpetrator, under any of the following circumstances:
(1)Where a person is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(2)Where it is accomplished against a persons will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another.
(3)Where a person is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused.
(4)Where a person is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused. As used in this paragraph, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets any one of the following conditions:
(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(5)Where a person submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief.
(6)Where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat. As used in this paragraph, threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or to inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death.
(7)Where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official. As used in this paragraph, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(8)Where the act is accomplished against the victims will by a person while that person is performing professional services that entail having access to the victims body.
(b)As used in this section, duress means a direct or implied threat of force, violence, danger, or retribution sufficient to coerce a reasonable person of ordinary susceptibilities to perform an act which otherwise would not have been performed, or acquiesce in an act to which one otherwise would not have submitted. The total circumstances, including the age of the victim, and his or her relationship to the defendant, are factors to consider in appraising the existence of duress.
(c)As used in this section, menace means any threat, declaration, or act which shows an intention to inflict an injury upon another.
SEC. 3.Section 286 of the Penal Code is amended to read:286.(a)Sodomy is sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime of sodomy.
(b)(1)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year.
(2)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 16 years of age shall be guilty of a felony.
(c)(1)Any person who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 14 years of age and more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(2)(A)Any person who commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of sodomy with another person who is under 14 years of age when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 9, 11, or 13 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of sodomy with another person who is a minor 14 years of age or older when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 7, 9, or 11 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(3)Any person who commits an act of sodomy where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(d)(1)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person or where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for five, seven, or nine years.
(2)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of sodomy upon a victim who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years.
(3)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of sodomy upon a victim who is a minor 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 7, 9, or 11 years.
(4)This subdivision does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(e)Any person who participates in an act of sodomy with any person of any age while confined in any state prison, as defined in Section 4504, or in any local detention facility, as defined in Section 6031.4, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year.
(f)(1)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of sodomy upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(g)Except as provided in subdivision (h), a person who commits an act of sodomy, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(h)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(i)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, where the victim is prevented from resisting by an intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(j)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, where the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(k)(1)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(2)As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(l)As used in subdivisions (c) and (d), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death.
(m)In addition to any punishment imposed under this section, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who violates this section, with the proceeds of this fine to be used in accordance with Section 1463.23. The court, however, shall take into consideration the defendants ability to pay, and no defendant shall be denied probation because of his or her inability to pay the fine permitted under this subdivision.
SEC. 4.Section 288a of the Penal Code is amended to read:288a.(a)Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person.
(b)(1)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(2)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 16 years of age is guilty of a felony.
(c)(1)Any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 14 years of age and more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(2)(A)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation upon a person who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation upon a minor who is 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 6, 8, or 10 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(3)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(d)(1)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or by aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation (A) when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, or (B) where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, or (C) where the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for five, seven, or nine years. Notwithstanding the appointment of a conservator with respect to the victim pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime described under paragraph (3), that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(2)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation upon a victim who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years.
(3)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation upon a victim who is a minor 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(4)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(e)Any person who participates in an act of oral copulation while confined in any state prison, as defined in Section 4504 or in any local detention facility as defined in Section 6031.4, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(f)(1)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the oral copulation served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of oral copulation upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(g)Except as provided in subdivision (h), any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(h)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(i)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the victim is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(j)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(k)(1)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(2)As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(l)As used in subdivisions (c) and (d), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or to inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death.
(m)In addition to any punishment imposed under this section, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who violates this section, with the proceeds of this fine to be used in accordance with Section 1463.23. The court shall, however, take into consideration the defendants ability to pay, and no defendant shall be denied probation because of his or her inability to pay the fine permitted under this subdivision.
SEC. 4.5.Section 288a of the Penal Code is amended and renumbered to read:288a.287.(a)Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person.
(b)(1)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(2)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 16 years of age is guilty of a felony.
(c)(1)Any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 14 years of age and more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(2)(A)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation upon a person who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation upon a minor who is 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 6, 8, or 10 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(3)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(d)(1)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or by aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation (A) when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, or (B) where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, or (C) where the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for five, seven, or nine years. Notwithstanding the appointment of a conservator with respect to the victim pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime described under paragraph (3), that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(2)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation upon a victim who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years.
(3)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation upon a victim who is a minor 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(4)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(e)Any person who participates in an act of oral copulation while confined in any state prison, as defined in Section 4504 or in any local detention facility as defined in Section 6031.4, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(f)Any
(f)(1)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(1)(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(2)(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(3)(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(4)(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the oral copulation served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of oral copulation upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(g)Except as provided in subdivision (h), any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(h)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(i)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the victim is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(j)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(k)Any
(k)(1)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
As
(2)As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(l)As used in subdivisions (c) and (d), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or to inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death.
(m)In addition to any punishment imposed under this section, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who violates this section, with the proceeds of this fine to be used in accordance with Section 1463.23. The court shall, however, take into consideration the defendants ability to pay, and no defendant shall be denied probation because of his or her inability to pay the fine permitted under this subdivision.
SEC. 5.Section 289 of the Penal Code is amended to read:289.(a)(1)(A)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration upon a child who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration upon a minor who is 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 6, 8, or 10 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(2)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(b)Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who commits an act of sexual penetration, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the appointment of a conservator with respect to the victim pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(c)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(d)(1)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of sexual penetration upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(e)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the victim is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(f)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(g)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(h)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of sexual penetration with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(i)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of sexual penetration with another person who is under 16 years of age shall be guilty of a felony.
(j)Any person who participates in an act of sexual penetration with another person who is under 14 years of age and who is more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(k)As used in this section:
(1)Sexual penetration is the act of causing the penetration, however slight, of the genital or anal opening of any person or causing another person to so penetrate the defendants or another persons genital or anal opening for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse by any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or by any unknown object.
(2)Foreign object, substance, instrument, or device shall include any part of the body, except a sexual organ.
(3)Unknown object shall include any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or any part of the body, including a penis, when it is not known whether penetration was by a penis or by a foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or by any other part of the body.
(l)As used in subdivision (a), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury or death.
(m)As used in this section, victim includes any person who the defendant causes to penetrate the genital or anal opening of the defendant or another person or whose genital or anal opening is caused to be penetrated by the defendant or another person and who otherwise qualifies as a victim under the requirements of this section.
SEC. 6.Section 4.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 288a of the Penal Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 1494. Section 4.5 shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted, without regard to the order of enactment, and become effective on or before January 1, 2019, and (2) each bill amends Section 288a of the Penal Code, in which case Section 4 of this bill shall not become operative.
SEC. 6.SEC. 7.No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
(a)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(b)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person who is institutionalized for medical treatment and who is seriously disabled or medically incapacitated, if the touching is against the will of the person touched, and if the touching is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(c)Any(c)(1)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(2)Any person who performs professional services that entail having access to another persons body and who touches an intimate part of that person while performing those services, and the touching is against the will of the person touched and for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery.
(3)A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(d)Any person who, for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, causes another, against that persons will while that person is unlawfully restrained either by the accused or an accomplice, or is institutionalized for medical treatment and is seriously disabled or medically incapacitated, to masturbate or touch an intimate part of either of those persons or a third person, is guilty of sexual battery. A violation of this subdivision is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000); or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(e)(1)Any person who touches an intimate part of another person, if the touching is against the will of the person touched, and is for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of misdemeanor sexual battery, punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment. However, if the defendant was an employer and the victim was an employee of the defendant, the misdemeanor sexual battery shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars ($3,000), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amount of a fine above two thousand dollars ($2,000) which is collected from a defendant for a violation of this subdivision shall be transmitted to the State Treasury and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, distributed to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing for the purpose of enforcement of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 12900) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), including, but not limited to, laws that proscribe sexual harassment in places of employment. However, in no event shall an amount over two thousand dollars ($2,000) be transmitted to the State Treasury until all fines, including any restitution fines that may have been imposed upon the defendant, have been paid in full.
(2)As used in this subdivision, touches means physical contact with another person, whether accomplished directly, through the clothing of the person committing the offense, or through the clothing of the victim.
(f)As used in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d), touches means physical contact with the skin of another person whether accomplished directly or through the clothing of the person committing the offense.
(g)As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1)Intimate part means the sexual organ, anus, groin, or buttocks of any person, and the breast of a female.
(2)Sexual battery does not include the crimes defined in Section 261 or 289.
(3)Seriously disabled means a person with severe physical or sensory disabilities.
(4)Medically incapacitated means a person who is incapacitated as a result of prescribed sedatives, anesthesia, or other medication.
(5)Institutionalized means a person who is located voluntarily or involuntarily in a hospital, medical treatment facility, nursing home, acute care facility, or mental hospital.
(6)Minor means a person under 18 years of age.
(h)This section shall not be construed to does not limit or prevent prosecution under any other law which also proscribes a course of conduct that also is proscribed by this section.
(i)In the case of a felony conviction for a violation of this section, the fact that the defendant was an employer and the victim was an employee of the defendant shall be a factor in aggravation in sentencing.
(j)A person who commits a violation of subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d) against a minor when the person has a prior felony conviction for a violation of this section shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years and a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
SEC. 2.Section 261 of the Penal Code is amended to read:261.(a)Rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouse of the perpetrator, under any of the following circumstances:
(1)Where a person is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(2)Where it is accomplished against a persons will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another.
(3)Where a person is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused.
(4)Where a person is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused. As used in this paragraph, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets any one of the following conditions:
(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(5)Where a person submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief.
(6)Where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat. As used in this paragraph, threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or to inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death.
(7)Where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official. As used in this paragraph, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(8)Where the act is accomplished against the victims will by a person while that person is performing professional services that entail having access to the victims body.
(b)As used in this section, duress means a direct or implied threat of force, violence, danger, or retribution sufficient to coerce a reasonable person of ordinary susceptibilities to perform an act which otherwise would not have been performed, or acquiesce in an act to which one otherwise would not have submitted. The total circumstances, including the age of the victim, and his or her relationship to the defendant, are factors to consider in appraising the existence of duress.
(c)As used in this section, menace means any threat, declaration, or act which shows an intention to inflict an injury upon another.
SEC. 3.Section 286 of the Penal Code is amended to read:286.(a)Sodomy is sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime of sodomy.
(b)(1)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year.
(2)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 16 years of age shall be guilty of a felony.
(c)(1)Any person who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 14 years of age and more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(2)(A)Any person who commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of sodomy with another person who is under 14 years of age when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 9, 11, or 13 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of sodomy with another person who is a minor 14 years of age or older when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 7, 9, or 11 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(3)Any person who commits an act of sodomy where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(d)(1)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person or where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for five, seven, or nine years.
(2)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of sodomy upon a victim who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years.
(3)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of sodomy upon a victim who is a minor 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 7, 9, or 11 years.
(4)This subdivision does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(e)Any person who participates in an act of sodomy with any person of any age while confined in any state prison, as defined in Section 4504, or in any local detention facility, as defined in Section 6031.4, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year.
(f)Any(f)(1)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(1)(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(2)(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(3)(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(4)(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of sodomy upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(g)Except as provided in subdivision (h), a person who commits an act of sodomy, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(h)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(i)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, where the victim is prevented from resisting by an intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(j)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, where the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(k)(1)Any person who commits an act of sodomy, where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
As(2)As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(l)As used in subdivisions (c) and (d), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death.
(m)In addition to any punishment imposed under this section, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who violates this section, with the proceeds of this fine to be used in accordance with Section 1463.23. The court, however, shall take into consideration the defendants ability to pay, and no defendant shall be denied probation because of his or her inability to pay the fine permitted under this subdivision.
SEC. 4.Section 288a of the Penal Code is amended to read:288a.(a)Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person.
(b)(1)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(2)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 16 years of age is guilty of a felony.
(c)(1)Any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 14 years of age and more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(2)(A)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation upon a person who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation upon a minor who is 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 6, 8, or 10 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(3)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(d)(1)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or by aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation (A) when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, or (B) where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, or (C) where the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for five, seven, or nine years. Notwithstanding the appointment of a conservator with respect to the victim pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime described under paragraph (3), that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(2)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation upon a victim who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years.
(3)Any person who, while voluntarily acting in concert with another person, either personally or aiding and abetting that other person, commits an act of oral copulation upon a victim who is a minor 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(4)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(e)Any person who participates in an act of oral copulation while confined in any state prison, as defined in Section 4504 or in any local detention facility as defined in Section 6031.4, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(f)Any(f)(1)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(1)(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(2)(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(3)(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(4)(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the oral copulation served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of oral copulation upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(g)Except as provided in subdivision (h), any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving consent.
(h)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(i)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the victim is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(j)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(k)(1)Any person who commits an act of oral copulation, where the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
As(2)As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(l)As used in subdivisions (c) and (d), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or to inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury injury, or death.
(m)In addition to any punishment imposed under this section, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who violates this section, with the proceeds of this fine to be used in accordance with Section 1463.23. The court shall, however, take into consideration the defendants ability to pay, and no defendant shall be denied probation because of his or her inability to pay the fine permitted under this subdivision.
SEC. 5.Section 289 of the Penal Code is amended to read:289.(a)(1)(A)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(B)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration upon a child who is under 14 years of age, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 8, 10, or 12 years.
(C)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration upon a minor who is 14 years of age or older, when the act is accomplished against the victims will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 6, 8, or 10 years.
(D)This paragraph does not preclude prosecution under Section 269, Section 288.7, or any other provision of law.
(2)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(b)Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who commits an act of sexual penetration, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. Notwithstanding the appointment of a conservator with respect to the victim pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(c)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration, and the victim is at the time incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed and both the defendant and the victim are at the time confined in a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or in any other public or private facility for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered approved by a county mental health director, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year. Notwithstanding the existence of a conservatorship pursuant to the provisions of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), the prosecuting attorney shall prove, as an element of the crime, that a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability rendered the alleged victim incapable of giving legal consent.
(d)Any(d)(1)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this is known to the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. As used in this subdivision, unconscious of the nature of the act means incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
(1)(A)Was unconscious or asleep.
(2)(B)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred.
(3)(C)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraud in fact.
(4)(D)Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrators fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
(2)A person who performs professional services that entail having access to the victims body and who commits an act of sexual penetration upon the victim while performing those services, and the act is against the victims will, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(e)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the victim is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(f)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act or causing the act to be committed is someone known to the victim other than the accused, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
(g)Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victims will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of three, six, or eight years.
As used in this subdivision, public official means a person employed by a governmental agency who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another. The perpetrator does not actually have to be a public official.
(h)Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of sexual penetration with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(i)Except as provided in Section 288, any person over 21 years of age who participates in an act of sexual penetration with another person who is under 16 years of age shall be guilty of a felony.
(j)Any person who participates in an act of sexual penetration with another person who is under 14 years of age and who is more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(k)As used in this section:
(1)Sexual penetration is the act of causing the penetration, however slight, of the genital or anal opening of any person or causing another person to so penetrate the defendants or another persons genital or anal opening for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse by any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or by any unknown object.
(2)Foreign object, substance, instrument, or device shall include any part of the body, except a sexual organ.
(3)Unknown object shall include any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or any part of the body, including a penis, when it is not known whether penetration was by a penis or by a foreign object, substance, instrument, or device, or by any other part of the body.
(l)As used in subdivision (a), threatening to retaliate means a threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury or death.
(m)As used in this section, victim includes any person who the defendant causes to penetrate the genital or anal opening of the defendant or another person or whose genital or anal opening is caused to be penetrated by the defendant or another person and who otherwise qualifies as a victim under the requirements of this section.
SEC. 6.No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
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| Aug 16, 2018 | In committee: Held under submission. |
| Aug 6, 2018 | In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jun 20, 2018 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). |
| Jun 7, 2018 | Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| May 30, 2018 | In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. |
| May 29, 2018 | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. |
| May 25, 2018 | From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). |
| Apr 4, 2018 | In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. |
| Mar 21, 2018 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Feb 22, 2018 | Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Feb 8, 2018 | From printer. May be heard in committee March 10. |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Read first time. To print. |
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| Aug 6, 2018 | Placed on suspense file | Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations |
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| Jun 19, 2018 | Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] | Senate Standing Committee on Public Safety |
Passed |
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| May 29, 2018 | AB 2078 DALY Assembly Third Reading | Assembly Floor |
Passed |
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| May 25, 2018 | Do pass. | Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations |
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| Mar 20, 2018 | Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar | Assembly Standing Committee on Public Safety |
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| California District Attorney's Association | * Support | Jun 19, 2018 |
| California State Sheriff's Association | ** Support | Mar 19, 2018 |
| Orange County District Attorney | ** Support | Mar 19, 2018 |
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Anthony Portantino, Chair
2017 - 2018 Regular Session
AB 2078 (Daly) - Sex offenses: professional services
Version: June 21, 2018 | Policy Vote: PUB. S. 7 - 0 |
Urgency: No | Mandate: Yes |
Hearing Date: August 6, 2018 | Consultant: Shaun Naidu |
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary:
AB 2078 would expand the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration when committed by a professional while performing professional services on another person that entail having access to the other person’s body. It also would increase the punishment for sexual battery by a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person’s body, as specified.
Fiscal Impact:
- State prison: Unknown, potential increase in state costs for new or longer commitments to state prison for persons found guilty of the crimes expanded upon by this bill or for which the punishment was increased. The proposed 2018-19 per capita cost to house a person in a state prison is $80,729 annually, with an annual marginal rate per inmate of between $10,000 and $12,000. The average contract-prison rate cost per inmate is over $30,000 annually. The actual costs would depend on how many defendants are sentenced to prison. (General Fund)
- Court: Unknown, potentially-significant workload cost pressures to the court to adjudicate charges brought against defendants for the expanded crimes. While the courts are not funded on a workload basis, an increase in workload could result in delayed court services and would put pressure on the General Fund to fund additional staff and resources. For example, the 2018 Budget Act appropriated $64 million from the General Fund to backfill continued reduction in fine and penalty revenue for trial court operations. (General Fund*)
*Trial Court Trust Fund
Background:
Existing law provides that a person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse while the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose. Additionally, existing law provides that a person who touches an intimate part of another person while that second person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. The aforementioned crimes are alternative felony-misdemeanor offenses and are punishable by incarceration in county jail for up to one year and a base fine of up to $2,000 or by imprisonment in state prison for two, three, or four years and a base fine of up to $10,000.
Additionally, any person who touches an intimate part of another person, if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of misdemeanor sexual battery, punishable by incarceration in county jail for up to six months and/or a base fine of up to $2,000.
Proposed Law:
This bill would:
- Increase the punishment for sexual battery by a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person’s body and who touches an intimate part of that person’s body while performing those services, and the touching was against the person’s will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse to either:
- Incarceration in county jail for up to one year and a base fine of up to $2,000.
- Incarceration in state prison for two, three, or four years and a base fine of up to $10,000.
- Expand the definitions of each of the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include any of those crimes performed against a victim’s will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victim’s body, if the conduct is performed by the professional while performing those services. These expanded crimes would be punishable by incarceration in state prison for three, six, or eight years.
Related Legislation:
AB 860 (Daly, 2015) was substantially similar to this bill and was held on the Suspense File of this Committee.
Staff Comments:
The fiscal impact of this bill cannot be known with certainty, as the actual impact will be dependent on numerous factors, including, but not limited to, judicial and prosecutorial discretion, the criminal history of the defendant, and the factors unique to each case. To the extent even one additional defendant is committed to state prison as a result of this bill, state incarceration costs would surpass the Suspense File threshold. Additionally, as the crimes expanded upon by this bill are punishable with the potential for incarceration, certain rights to the defendants are attached to the proceedings, including the right to a jury trial and the right to counsel (at public expense if the defendants are unable to afford the costs of representation) which could lead to lengthier court proceedings. Consequently, to the extent that the court adjudicates more than three of these expanded felony offenses, on average, costs to the court resulting from this bill would be significant.
California is subject to a federal court order to reduce its in-state adult institution population to 137.5 percent of design capacity. The state has undertaken efforts to implement a durable remedy to reduce and avoid prison overcrowding. On July 4, 2018, 115,306 inmates were housed in the state’s thirty-five adult institutions, 6,286 were housed in in-state contract beds, and 2,810 inmates were housed in out-of-state facilities. The prison population changes daily as new inmates are admitted and others are released, but, on that date, the state’s prison population was approximately 135.5 percent of design capacity. By potentially increasing the inmate population in in-state institutions, this bill could make it more difficult for the state to comply with the court order.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
Senator Nancy Skinner, Chair
2017 - 2018 Regular
Bill No: AB 2078 Hearing Date: June 19, 2018
Author: | Daly | ||
Version: | February 7, 2018 | ||
Urgency: | No | Fiscal: | Yes |
Consultant: | GC | ||
Subject: Sex Offenses: Professional Services
HISTORY
Source: Orange County District Attorney’s Office
Prior Legislation: AB 860 (Daly), 2015, held in Senate Appropriations
AB 59 (Evans), Ch. 282. Stats. 2013
AB 65 (Achadjian), Ch. 259, Stats. 2013
SB 765 (Achadjian), Held in Senate Public Safety, 2011
AB 2049 (Saldana), Amended to become a new bill, 2008
SB 1421 (Romero), Ch. 302, Stats. 2002
Support: The Arc; California Attorneys for Criminal Justice; California District Attorneys Association; California State Sheriffs’ Association; United Cerebral Palsy California Collaboration
Opposition: None known
Assembly Floor Vote: 76 - 2
PURPOSE
The purpose of this bill is to expand the crimes of sexual battery, rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include non-consensual, sexual touching by a person who has been engaged by the victim for a professional purpose.
Existing law states that any person who touches an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (a).)
Existing law states that any person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery. (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (c).)
Existing law punishes a violation of sexual battery by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding $2,000; or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years; and by a fine not exceeding $10,000. (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (a)-(c).)
Existing law defines battery (non-sexual) as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. (Pen. Code, § 242.)
Existing law punishes battery by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment. (Pen. Code, § 243.)
Existing law provides that rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator,[1] under any of the following circumstances:
- Where a person is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act;
- Where it is accomplished against a person's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another;
- Where a person is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known, by the accused;
- Where a person submits under the belief that the person committing the act is the victim's spouse, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief;
- Where the act is accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat; or
- Where the act is accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official. (Pen. Code, § 261, subds. (a)(1)-(a)(3), and (a)(5)-(a)(7).)
Existing law states that rape also occurs where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused. (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)(4).)
Existing law defines "unconscious of the nature of the act" as incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
- Was unconscious or asleep;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraud in fact; or
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose. (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)(4).)
Existing law punishes rape by imprisonment in state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 264, subd. (a).)
Existing law states any person who commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 286, subd. (c)(2).)
Existing law states that any person who commits an act of sodomy where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 286, subd. (f).)
Existing law states that any person who commits an act of oral copulation when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (c)(2)(A).)
Existing law states that any person who commits an act of oral copulation where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (f).)
Existing law states any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 289, subd. (a)(1).)
Existing law states that any person who commits an act of sexual penetration where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 289, subd. (d).)
This bill expands the crime of sexual battery to apply to a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person’s body, who touches an intimate part of that person’s body while performing those services and the touching was against the person’s will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse.
This bill punishes this form of sexual battery by either imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year and a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
This bill expands the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include when any of those acts are performed against a victim’s will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victim’s body, if the conduct is performed by the professional in the course of the services.
COMMENTS
1. Need for This Bill
According to the author:
This bill would ensure that perpetrators can be punished proportionally for sexual battery and other sexual offenses that they commit during the course of a professional service. The punishment will apply when the victim is conscious of the nature of the act, consent is not given or obtained fraudulently, and the conduct is not related to the professional service.
2. Existing Law Arguably Fails to Establish Felony Liability for Unwanted Sexual Touching in the Context of Professional Services
Under current law, providers of specified professional services who sexually assault their clients can be charged with a felony sex crime if any of the following conditions occur:
- Fraud in fact (e.g., informing a client that they will be examined by a medical instrument causing penetration, obtaining their consent, and then performing the “examination” using their own body part)
- Fraud by inducement (e.g., informing a client that sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it did not)
- Or if the victim was unaware, unconscious, restrained, or unable to perceive the essential characteristics of the sexual act.
-However-
A perpetrator of these types of crimes can only be tried for misdemeanor sexual battery if all of the following occur:
- During a session, there is touching which is clearly not related to the professional service, which the victim cannot reasonably believe was said service; and
- The victim was conscious of the nature of the act in terms of its sexual nature; and
- The victim did not consent to the act under fraudulent means (fraud in fact or inducement).
For example: An individual receives facial treatments, and the service provider begins to massage other parts of his or her body sexually without asking the victim for consent (or misleading the victim by claiming that the act was part of that service). If the provider then stops when the victim objects, the provider could only be charged, under current law, with misdemeanor sexual battery.
Because these acts are not committed while the person is impaired or unconscious of the actions of the provider, they can object to it and are able to perceive the essential characteristics of the sex act. Their consent is not considered to have been obtained by fraudulent misrepresentation during the course of the treatment. In this instance, the rape by fraud in fact or inducement statutes do not apply.
As a consequence, some individuals who have committed a felonious sexual assault can only be charged with less serious crimes.
3. Penalties Provided in Existing Law
This bill provides any massage therapist, physical therapist, holistic healer, chiropractor, or other professional service provider who touches an intimate part of another's body against his or her will for sexual gratification while in the practice of the profession is guilty of one of the enumerated sex crimes. Lack of consent is the foundation of most prosecutions for sexual assault and may be proven many ways. The victim objects to the conduct and the defendant disregards the objection by force, duress, threat of force, or threat of future retaliation. (See Pen. Code §§ 261(a)(2), 286(c)(2), and 288a(c)(2).) The penalty for most forcible sex offenses is three, six or eight years in state prison. However, there are instances in which the defendant may be guilty of a sex offense even where the victim did not specifically object. Lack of consent is implied if the victim is not able to object because he or she is unconscious, unaware the act occurred, or was not aware of the essential characteristics of the act because of fraud. (See Pen. Code §§ 261(a)(4) and 288a(f)(1) to (4).) This includes a perpetrator who fraudulently claims the act is necessary for some professional purpose or otherwise convinces the victim to consent to one act but then does another. The courts have distinguished between "fraud in fact" and "fraud in inducement." Fraud in fact "appears to be limited to those narrow situations in which the victim consented to the defendant's act, but because the victim believed the essential characteristics of the act consented to were different from the characteristics of the act the defendant actually committed, the victim was incapable of resisting the act actually committed because the victim was ignorant of the true nature of the act permitted. In contrast, when the victim consents to the defendant's act with the full knowledge of the essential characteristics of the act, a conviction was induced the unconscious-due-to-fraud-in-fact concept cannot stand even though the victim was induced to consent by fraudulent representations as to the benefits resulting from the act." (People v. Stuedemann (2007) 156 Cal.App. 4th 1, 7; People v. Cook (1964) 228 Cal.App. 2nd 716, 718; People v. Harris (hereinafter Harris) (1979) 93 Cal. App. 3rd 103, 114.) In People v. Harris, the defendant's conviction for rape was overturned under a "fraud in fact" theory. In that case, the victim agreed to sexual intercourse with the defendant if she lost a bet, but was unaware the bet was rigged to ensure she lost. (Harris at 111).
In affirming the rape conviction of a physician, the California Appellate Court stated, "It is settled that a victim need not be totally and physically unconscious in order for the statute defining rape as an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is at the time 'unconscious of the nature of the act' to apply (citation omitted). In this context, unconsciousness is related to the issue of consent, which, in prosecution under Penal Code Section 261 (rape) is 'defined to mean positive cooperation in act or attitude pursuant to an exercise of free will. The person must act freely and voluntarily and have knowledge of the nature of the act or transaction." (Penal Code Section 261.6). (People v. Ogunmola (hereinafter Ogunmola) (1987) 193 Cal.App 3rd 274, 279; see also People v. Minkowski (1962) 204 Cal.App. 2nd 832.) In Ogunmola, the defendant was a gynecologist who raped patients while performing examinations. Neither of the two victims knew the defendant was engaged in the criminal conduct until he committed the act of penetration. Neither victim objected at the time of the examination. The Appellate Court held:
"Similarly, in the present case, the trier of fact could reasonably conclude from the testimony of the victim gynecological patients, who reposed great trust in their physician in placing themselves in positions of great vulnerability from which they could not readily perceive his conduct toward them, that neither was aware of the nature of the act, i.e., neither consciously perceived or recognized that defendant was not engaged in an examination, but rather in an act of sexual intercourse, until he had accomplished sexual penetration, and the crime had occurred. Each of the victims, who had consented to a pathological examination, with its concomitant manual and instrumental intrusions, was 'unconscious of the nature of the act' of sexual intercourse committed upon her by defendant, until the same was accomplished, and cannot be said to have consented thereto. Defendant's conduct on each occasion was clearly within the scope of Penal Code Section 261(a)(4) (rape of an unconscious person), and constituted rape." (Ogunmola at 280, 281.) The Ogunmola case likely proceeded under a theory that the victims were not aware or cognizant of the act when it occurred and does not seem to deal with fraud in fact. (Penal Code Section 261(a)(4)(B).)
Penal Code Section 263 states, "The essential guilt of rape consists in the outrage to the person and feelings of the victim of the rape. Any sexual penetration, however, slight, is sufficient to complete the crime". It is unclear how this bill will provide more protection to the victims because it requires the specified sex offense be committed against the will of the victim. In instances where the victim objects or there is no opportunity for consent because he or she is "unconscious", as specified, the offender is guilty of the substantive offense (rape, sodomy, oral copulation, rape with a foreign object or sexual battery).
People v. Stuedemann: The sponsor points to People v. Stuedemann (hereinafter Stuedemann) (2007) 156 Cal.App. 4th 1 as evidence of infirmity in the law that must be remedied. In Stuedemann, the People charged the defendant, a massage therapist, with sexual penetration of an unconscious person and oral copulation of an unconscious person, as specified. Penal Code Section 288a(f)(3) is oral copulation of a person who is "unconscious of the nature of the act" because the victim was not aware of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraud in fact. Penal Code Section 289(d)(3) is sexual penetration under the same circumstances. The defendant was convicted of both charges at trial and appealed. The theory presented by the People was that the defendant was guilty oral copulation and sexual penetration because the victim was unconscious of the essential characteristics of the act due to the defendant's fraud in fact. (Stuedemann at 6.) Therefore, the appellate court reviewed the case pursuant to a fraud in fact claim. However, the court was not persuaded by the fraud in fact theory and stated, "Applying this framework here [defining fraud in fact], the evidence does not support a conviction under the unconsciousness provisions of oral copulation and sexual penetration. There is no evidence Griselda [the victim] consented or cooperated (was 'incapable of resisting') because of her ignorance of the true nature of the acts performed by Stuedemann. To the contrary, she did not permit Stuedemann to orally copulate or digitally penetrate her believing the copulation or penetration was something other than a sexual copulation or penetration; instead, she immediately recognized the acts for what they were and expressed her non-consent." (Stuedemann at 11.)
The court distinguished the Ogunmola case explained above because the victim in this case was not consenting to a full on medical examination where penetration for some legitimate purpose might occur. The court concluded, "Unlike Ogunmola and its predecessors, there was no evidence Griselda consented to anything resembling the acts undertaken by Stuedemann. Although Griselda consented to a massage, the result of which made her vulnerable to Stuedemann's acts that overstepped the boundaries of her consent, the evidence showed she was fully aware of the nature of Stuedemann's acts when those acts transgressed the boundaries and was capable of (and did) express her non-consent and resistance to the conduct. We conclude that Stuedemann's 'conduct, reprehensible though it was', did not violate [sections on oral copulation and sexual penetration] because Griselda was not unconscious due to Stuedemann's fraud in fact, the only theory asserted by the prosecution.] If there is a statutory oversight in this area of the penal law, the Legislature may address it (citation omitted)." (Stuedemann at 14.)
Additionally, the court offers under existing law to re-sentence the defendant for battery, as specified; however, the parties reject the court's invitation. It is unclear if charging the defendant under a different statute - one not based on fraud - would have resulted in a different outcome. Although, as the court points out, this case is somewhat troubling, there are factual issues of consent. The only remedy is to craft a statute that would remove the consent element where the victim is in a state of undress or is otherwise in a semi-vulnerable position. However, this may inadvertently punish consensual conduct or fail to protect persons who are fully clothed or not necessarily in a semi-vulnerable position. As noted above, this bill's language still requires the action be committed against the person's will. If that were the case in Stuedemann if the defendant had disregarded the victim's objections, the defendant would be guilty of oral copulation and sexual penetration and no discussion of consent would have been necessary.
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Spousal rape is criminalized separately at Penal Code Section 262. ↑
ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ATR Bill Id:AB 2078
Author:(Daly)
As Introduced Ver:February 7, 2018
Majority vote
Committee | Votes | Ayes | Noes |
Public Safety | 7-0 | Jones-Sawyer, Lackey, Carrillo, Gonzalez Fletcher, Kiley, Quirk, Santiago | |
Appropriations | 16-0 | Gonzalez Fletcher, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonta, Calderon, Carrillo, Chau, Eggman, Fong, Friedman, Gallagher, Eduardo Garcia, Nazarian, Obernolte, Quirk, Reyes |
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SUMMARY: Expands the crimes of sexual battery, rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include non-consensual, sexual touching by a person who has been engaged by the victim for a professional purpose. Specifically, this bill:
- Expands the crime of sexual battery to apply to a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person's body, who touches an intimate part of that person's body while performing those services and the touching was against the person's will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse.
- Punishes this form of sexual battery by either imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year and a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
- Expands the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include when any of those acts are performed against a victim's will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victim's body, if the conduct is performed by the professional in the course of the services.
EXISTING LAW:
- States that any person who touches an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery.
- States that any person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery.
- Punishes a violation of sexual battery by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding $2,000; or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years; and by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
- Defines battery (non-sexual) as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
- Punishes battery by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
- Provides that rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator,[1] under any of the following circumstances:
- Where a person is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act;
- Where it is accomplished against a person's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another;
- Where a person is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known, by the accused;
- Where a person submits under the belief that the person committing the act is the victim's spouse, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief;
- Where the act is accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat; or
- Where the act is accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official.
- States that rape also occurs where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused.
- Defines "unconscious of the nature of the act" as incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
- Was unconscious or asleep;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraud in fact;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose.
- Punishes rape by imprisonment in state prison for three, six, or eight years.
- States any person who commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
- States that any person who commits an act of sodomy where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
- States that any person who commits an act of oral copulation when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
- States that any person who commits an act of oral copulation where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
- States any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
- States that any person who commits an act of sexual penetration where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee:
- Unknown, likely significant GF costs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to incarcerate individuals who commit the crimes as expanded by this bill. As an example, if two additional offenders are admitted annually to CDCR with three-year sentences (the mid-term sentence for felony sexual battery), costs in the first year will be $60,000 (assuming the out-of-state contract rate of $30,000 annually per offender), $120,000 in the second year, and $180,000 in the third year and ongoing.
- Unknown, potential minor savings for local jails. Allowing the crimes specified in this bill to be charged as felonies rather than misdemeanors could reduce the number of offenders who would otherwise be sentenced to county jail.
- Minor costs (Legal Services Revolving Fund) for the Department of Justice to process arrest records and fingerprints.
COMMENTS: According to the author, "This bill would ensure that perpetrators can be punished proportionally for sexual battery and other sexual offenses that they commit during the course of a professional service. The punishment will apply when the victim is conscious of the nature of the act, consent is not given or obtained fraudulently, and the conduct is not related to the professional service.”
Please see the policy committee analysis for a full discussion of this bill.
Analysis Prepared by: Matthew Fleming / PUB. S. / (916) 319-3744 FN: 0003154
Spousal rape is criminalized separately at Penal Code Section 262. ↑
Date of Hearing: April 4, 2018
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Chair
ABPCA Bill Id:AB 2078
Author:(Daly) – As Introduced Ver:February 7, 2018
Policy Committee: | Public Safety | Vote: | 7 - 0 |
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: Yes Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill expands the crimes of sexual battery, rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include non-consensual, sexual touching by a person who has been engaged by the victim for a professional purpose. Specifically, this bill:
- Expands the crime of sexual battery to apply to a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person’s body (such as a massage therapist), who touches an intimate part of that person’s body while performing those services and the touching was against the person’s will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. This bill punishes this form of sexual battery by either imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year and a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
- Expands the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include when any of those acts are performed against a victim’s will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victim’s body, if the conduct is performed by the professional in the course of the services.
FISCAL EFFECT:
- Unknown, likely significant GF costs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to incarcerate individuals who commit the crimes as expanded by this bill. Data are not available on the number of cases prosecuted each year as misdemeanors that could be charged as felonies under this bill, so the potential increase in the state prison population as a result of this bill is unknown. However, as an example, if two additional offenders are admitted annually to CDCR with three-year sentences (the mid-term sentence for felony sexual battery), costs in the first year will be $60,000 (assuming the out-of-state contract rate of $30,000 annually per offender), $120,000 in the second year, and $180,000 in the third year and ongoing.
- Unknown, potential minor savings for local jails. Allowing the crimes specified in this bill to be charged as felonies rather than misdemeanors could reduce the number of offenders who would otherwise be sentenced to county jail.
COMMENTS:
- Background. Under current law, a felony sex offense occurs when a person providing professional services, such as a massage therapist, engages in a sexual act by using force against a customer, when the offender “unlawfully restrains” the customer, or when the offender fraudulently deceives the customer that the sexual touching is somehow connected to the professional services. What existing law arguably fails to cover is the situation in which someone providing professional services suddenly decides to sexually touch his or her customer without force, restraint, or fraud.
- Purpose. This bill addresses unwanted sexual touching in the course of professional services that entail access to another person’s body, such as full body massage. According to the author:
This bill would ensure that perpetrators can be punished proportionally for sexual battery and other sexual offenses that they commit during the course of a professional service. The punishment will apply when the victim is conscious of the nature of the act, consent is not given or obtained fraudulently, and the conduct is not related to the professional service.
- Prior Legislation. AB 860 (Daly), of the 2015-2016 Legislative Session, was virtually identical to this bill. AB 860 was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File.
Analysis Prepared by: Jessica Peters / APPR. / (916) 319-2081
Date of Hearing:
Counsel: Matthew Fleming
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr., Chair
ABPCA Bill Id:AB 2078
Author:(Daly) – As Introduced Ver:February 7, 2018
SUMMARY:
Expands the crimes of sexual battery, rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include non-consensual, sexual touching by a person who has been engaged by the victim for a professional purpose. Specifically, this bill:
- Expands the crime of sexual battery to apply to a person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person’s body, who touches an intimate part of that person’s body while performing those services and the touching was against the person’s will and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse.
- Punishes this form of sexual battery by either imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year and a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
- Expands the crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration to include when any of those acts are performed against a victim’s will by a professional whose services entail having access to the victim’s body, if the conduct is performed by the professional in the course of the services.
EXISTING LAW:
- States that any person who touches an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of sexual battery. (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (a).)
- States that any person who touches an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, and the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, is guilty of sexual battery. (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (c).)
- Punishes a violation of sexual battery by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, and by a fine not exceeding $2,000; or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years; and by a fine not exceeding $10,000. (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (a)-(c).)
- Defines battery (non-sexual) as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. (Pen. Code, § 242.)
- Punishes battery by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment. (Pen. Code, § 243.)
- Provides that rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator,[1] under any of the following circumstances:
- Where a person is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act;
- Where it is accomplished against a person's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another;
- Where a person is prevented from resisting by any intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or any controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known, by the accused;
- Where a person submits under the belief that the person committing the act is the victim's spouse, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief;
- Where the act is accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person, and there is a reasonable possibility that the perpetrator will execute the threat; or
- Where the act is accomplished against the victim's will by threatening to use the authority of a public official to incarcerate, arrest, or deport the victim or another, and the victim has a reasonable belief that the perpetrator is a public official. (Pen. Code, § 261, subds. (a)(1)-(a)(3), and (a)(5)-(a)(7).)
- Where a person is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act;
- States that rape also occurs where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused. (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)(4).)
- Defines "unconscious of the nature of the act" as incapable of resisting because the victim meets one of the following conditions:
- Was unconscious or asleep;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant that the act occurred;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraud in fact;
- Was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose. (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)(4).)
- Was unconscious or asleep;
- Punishes rape by imprisonment in state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 264, subd. (a).)
- States any person who commits an act of sodomy when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 286, subd. (c)(2).)
- States that any person who commits an act of sodomy where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 286, subd. (f).)
- States that any person who commits an act of oral copulation when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (c)(2)(A).)
- States that any person who commits an act of oral copulation where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (f).)
- States any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 289, subd. (a)(1).)
- States that any person who commits an act of sexual penetration where the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and this is known to the accused, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (Pen. Code, § 289, subd. (d).)
FISCAL EFFECT:
Unknown
COMMENTS:
- Author's Statement: According to the author, "This bill would ensure that perpetrators can be punished proportionally for sexual battery and other sexual offenses that they commit during the course of a professional service. The punishment will apply when the victim is conscious of the nature of the act, consent is not given or obtained fraudulently, and the conduct is not related to the professional service.”
- Existing Law Arguably Fails to Establish Felony Liability for Unwanted Sexual Touching in the Context of Professional Services: This bill addresses unwanted sexual touching in course of professional services that entail access to another person’s body, such a full body massage. Under current law, a felony sex offense occurs when a masseuse enegaes in a sexual act by using force against a customer, when the masseuse “unlawfully restrains” the customer, or when a masseuse fraudulently deceives the customer that the sexual touching is somehow connected to the professional services. What existing law arguably fails to cover, is the situation in which a masseuse suddenly decides to sexually touch his or her customer without force, restraint, or fraud.
The gap in the existing law appears to be product of the technical way in which “force,” “unlawful restraint,” and “fraud” are defined by California law. “Force” in the context of California sex offenses requires the prosecution to demonstrate that the degree of force used was “sufficient to support a finding that the act of sexual intercourse was against the will of the victim.” (People v. Griffin (2004) 33 Cal. 4th 1015, 1023-24 (quoting People v. Young (1987) 190 Cal. App. 3rd 248, 257-58).) “Unlawful restraint” according to the courts “requires something more than the exertion of physical effort required to commit the prohibited sexual act.” (People v. Arnold (1992) 6 Cal. App 4th 18, 27.) Finally, “fraud” occurs where the deceit is so great that the victim is said to be “unconscious of the nature of the act.” For example, in one case a gynecologist deceived his patients by stating that he was inserting medical instruments into their bodies, when in fact he was inserting his own sexual organ. (People v. Ogunmola (1987) 193 Cal.App 3rd 274, 279.) This was found to be rape by fraud because the victims were so completely deceived that they were “unconscious” of the nature of the sexual act, in that they believed they were being seen for legitimate genealogical services throughout the course of the appointment.
By contrast, if a masseuse is providing a full-body massage to a customer and suddenly decides to grope the intimate parts of the customer, that could present a situation in which the prosecution is unable to prove either force, unlawful restraint, or fraud as defined by existing law. Force would require that the jury find that the sexual touching was accomplished against the will of the victim, which may prove difficult where the victim did not call out or actively resist. The masseuse cannot be said to have “unlawfully restrained” the victim in order to accomplish the groping absent some evidence of handcuffing or otherwise tying down the victim. Furthermore, the masseuse did not attempt to fraudulently deceive the victim, he simply acted suddenly and without consent. Arguably, because there was neither force, not unlawful restraint, nor fraud, current law would only allow for a conviction for non-sexual battery, which is punishable only as misdemeanor. This bill seeks to punish such conduct as a felony.
- Examples of Situations in Which this Bill May Apply:
- People v. Stuedemann (2007) 156 Cal.App.4th 1:
A story very similar to the hypothetical situation described above played out in People v. Stuedemann (2007) 156 Cal.App. 4th 1. In Stuedemann, the defendant, a massage therapist, was charged with sexual penetration of an unconscious person and oral copulation of an unconscious person. Specifically, the prosecutor alleged that the victim was "unconscious of the nature of the act" due to the perpetrator's fraud. (Pen. Code §§ 288a, subd. (f)(3) and 289, subd. (d)(3).)
Defendant Stuedemann met his victim, Griselda, while he was giving sample massages at a swap meet. Griselda made an appointment for a full massage at defendant's business. The scheduled one-hour massage had gone on for two hours before the conduct forming the basis for the charges occurred. The court of appeals described the pertinent facts of the massage as follows:
The massage began with Stuedemann instructing Griselda to lie face down on a table. He covered her with a sheet and began massaging her back. At one point, Stuedemann moved her panties to one side to massage her buttocks. When he was finished massaging her back, he instructed Griselda to lie on her back and, when she was face up, he put a mask over her eyes [ostensibly as part of aromatherapy]. While Griselda was on her back, Stuedemann initially kept the sheet in place to cover her while he massaged her. However, as the massage progressed, Stuedemann lowered the sheet and, without saying anything, massaged her breasts and nipples. She said nothing to him about it. He then lowered the sheet further and began massaging her abdomen. He pulled down her panties and twice inserted his finger into her vagina. He then orally copulated her, at which point Griselda sat up quickly and told him to stop. Stuedemann stopped, said "I'm sorry," and left the room. He did not tell her that he was going to digitally penetrate or orally copulate her. (Stuedemann., 156 Cal. App 4th at 4-5.)
Although a jury convicted Stuedemann of felony sexual battery on a fraudulent representation theory, the court of appeals rejected the fraud theory and stated: "There is no evidence Griselda consented or cooperated (was 'incapable of resisting') because of her ignorance of the true nature of the acts performed by Stuedemann. To the contrary, she did not permit Stuedemann to orally copulate or digitally penetrate her believing the copulation or penetration was something other than a sexual copulation or penetration; instead, she immediately recognized the acts for what they were and expressed her non-consent." (Id., at p. 8.)
The court distinguished the Ogunmola case in which a doctor raped patients who initially believed he was performing a clinical examination, but actually inserted his penis into each victim’s vagina:
Unlike Ogunmola … there was no evidence Griselda consented to anything resembling the [sexual] acts undertaken by Stuedemann. Although Griselda consented to a massage, the result of which made her vulnerable to Stuedemann's [sexual] acts… the evidence showed she was fully aware of the nature of Stuedemann's [sexual] acts … and was capable of (and did) express her non-consent and resistance to the conduct. … Stuedemann's 'conduct, reprehensible though it was, did not [constitute criminal oral copulation and sexual penetration] because Griselda was not unconscious due to Stuedemann's fraud in fact, the only theory asserted by the prosecution. If there is a statutory oversight in this area of the penal law, the Legislature may address it [citation]. (Id., at p. 14.)
As a result, Stuedmann was only convicted of misdemeanor battery, but under this bill he could have been convicted of a felony.
- Massage Envy Lawsuit:
Massage Envy is a nationwide chain that provides full body massage services to its customers. The chain has a substantial presence in California, and there are more than a dozen locations in the greater Sacramento area alone. Recently, the chain became embroiled in a lawsuit in which nearly 200 customers made complaints of unwanted sexual touching. (Park, Woman Says she Was Sexually Assaulted at Massage Envy, CNN, November 28, 2017 <https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/us/massage-envy-allegations/index.html> [as of March 8, 2018].) Although it is unclear how many of the 180 plaintiffs joined in the lawsuit are California residents, it appears that at least one lawsuit has been brought against a massage envy location in the Los Angeles area. (See <https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Massage-Envy-Lawsuit-Inappropriate-Touching-Masseuse-465977353.html> [as of March 8, 2018].) Some of these instances may have also been punishable under the provisions proposed by this bill. - Yolo County Case:
- Massage Envy Lawsuit:
More recently, a man in Yolo County was charged with numerous counts of sexual battery stemming from multiple victims. (Keene, Former Davis Masseur Convicted of Sexual Battery, Davis Enterprise, March 7, 2018 <https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/former-davis-massuer-convicted-of-sexual-battery> [as of March 8,2018].) According to the article, the defendant – a massage therapist – was convicted of a single felony count based on penetration of his final victim. Apparently, the jury acquitted on charges for sexual battery based on a fraudulent representation theory. Although the facts of the case are not laid out in any detail in the article, it appears that the Yolo County case would be an appropriate situation in which to use the expanded definition of sexual battery proposed by this bill.
- How should courts define “professional services” and “access to another person’s body?” The provisions of this bill are defined in terms of the defendant performing professional services that entail having access to another person's body. The bill does not define a professional service. That raises the following question: Must the service be a legitimate, recognized professional service, or is a purported professional service covered by the bill?
For example, it appears that the defendant in Stuedemann was truly a massage therapist. He sexually touched and orally copulated the victim during what was otherwise a legitimate massage. In contrast, it is not difficult to imagine a situation in which a defendant may hold himself out to offer professional services when he in fact has no training or education in those services. For example, if the defendant in Stuedemann had no license and had offered to perform the massage at the victim’s home rather than at the massage parlor, would this bill still apply? Is payment or the promise of payment required to meet the “professional services” element? The proposed bill also does not define what “access to another person’s body” is. While there are some situations such as a full body massage or physical examination that would certainly fall within its scope, this bill would also create a gray area. For example, would a golf instructor be subject to the new crime of sexual battery by a person employed for professional services with access to another person’s body? How about a barber or a tailor? There are many professions that may or may not be subject to the provisions of this bill and there exists the possibility that the bill will be applied unequally from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
- Prison over-crowding: In January 2010, a three-judge panel issued a ruling ordering the State of California to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity because overcrowding was the primary reason that CDCR was unable to provide inmates with constitutionally adequate healthcare. (Coleman/Plata vs. Schwarzenegger (2010) No. Civ S-90-0520 LKK JFM P/NO. C01-1351 THE.) The United State Supreme Court upheld the decision, declaring that “without a reduction in overcrowding, there will be no efficacious remedy for the unconstitutional care of the sick and mentally ill” inmates in California’s prisons. (Brown v. Plata (2011) 131 S.Ct. 1910, 1939; 179 L.Ed.2d 969, 999.)
After continued litigation, on February 10, 2014, the federal court ordered California to reduce its in-state adult institution population to 137.5% of design capacity by February 28, 2016, as follows: 143% of design bed capacity by June 30, 2014; 141.5% of design bed capacity by February 28, 2015; and, 137.5% of design bed capacity by February 28, 2016.
CDCR’s February 2018 monthly report on the prison population notes that the in-state adult institution population is currently 113,975 inmates, which amounts to approximately 134% of design capacity. This represents a marginal .1% improvement from February of last year. Additionally, there are still 4,145 prisoners being housed out of state. (<http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information _Services_Branch/Monthly/TPOP1A/TPOP1Ad1802.pdf>.)
Thus, while CDCR is currently in compliance with the three-judge panel’s order on the prison population, the state needs to maintain a “durable solution” to prison overcrowding “consistently demanded” by the court. (Opinion Re: Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendants’ Request For Extension of December 31, 2013 Deadline, NO. 2:90-cv-0520 LKK DAD (PC), 3-Judge Court, Coleman v. Brown, Plata v. Brown (2-10-14).) This bill would expand felony liability and therefore is likely to result in more prison sentences. As a result it may be at odds with the requirement that the state continue to keep its prison population below the 137.5% threshold.
- Prior Legislation: AB 860 (Daly), of the 2015-2016 Legislative Session was virtually identical to this bill. AB 860 was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee suspense file.
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