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   From: democrat-insurrection@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://calmatters.org/health/2024/12/emergency-room-workers-assaults-   
   penalties-new-laws-2025/   
      
   Those who physically attack doctors, nurses and other emergency department   
   workers in California face harsher penalties in 2025 thanks to a new law.   
      
   In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 977, which increased   
   penalties from six months to a year in jail for those convicted of   
   assaulting California’s hospital emergency room workers.   
      
   The bill’s author was Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez, who spent 30 years   
   as an emergency medical technician in the San Gabriel Valley.   
      
   Rodriguez, a Democrat whose term ended in 2024, said he was compelled to   
   introduce the legislation after seeing too many of his friends and former   
   colleagues attacked on the job. He felt that there needed to be tougher   
   penalties to discourage future attacks.   
      
   As he made his case to lawmakers this year, he testified that his   
   daughter, Desirae, a respiratory technician, was recently assaulted on the   
   job. Other health care workers testified that they too had been attacked.   
      
   Recent polling shows they’re hardly alone. A poll from the American   
   College of Emergency Physicians found that more than 90% of ER doctors   
   said they’d been attacked within the last year.   
      
   Though the bill ended up passing overwhelmingly, some progressive   
   Democrats either voted against or didn’t vote for the proposal which   
   counts the same as a “no” vote. They, along with prison reform advocates   
   and the California Public Defenders Association, argued that increasing   
   penalties doesn’t deter crime and that many of those assaulting ER workers   
   are mentally ill. They noted that laws on the books already prohibited   
   assault.   
      
   Former Gov. Jerry Brown, who faced a U.S. Supreme Court order to shrink   
   the state’s prison population, had vetoed an identical bill from Rodriguez   
   in 2015.   
      
   The California Medical Association, the lobbying group for California’s   
   physicians, was glad Newsom didn’t do the same.   
      
   “Thank you Governor Newsom, Assemblymember Rodriguez, and the Legislature   
   for having the backs of health care workers across the state,” the   
   association’s president, Dr. Tanya Spirtos, said in a statement after   
   Newsom signed the bill.   
      
      
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