2023 House Bill 4918

House Fiscal Agency Analysis

House Bill 4918 would amend the Michigan Penal Code to prohibit a person from assaulting, battering, or assaulting and battering an individual while the individual is performing their duties as the operator of a bus, street railway vehicle, or train or because of the individual’s status as an employee or contractor of a bus service, street railway service, or railroad. A violation would be a crime as follows: • Simple assault: A person who violates the above prohibition with no aggravating factors would be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for up to 93 days or a fine of up to $1,000, or both.1 With a prior conviction for violating the above prohibition, regardless of aggravating factors, the person would be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for up to 180 days or a fine of up to $2,000, or both. • Aggravated assault: A person who violates the above prohibition without a weapon and inflicts serious or aggravated injury on the individual without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm less than murder would be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to $2,000, or both.2 With a prior conviction for violating the above prohibition, regardless of aggravating factors, the person would be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to two years or a fine of up to $4,000, or both. • Assault with a deadly weapon: A person who violates the above prohibition by assaulting the individual with a gun, revolver, pistol, knife, iron bar, club, brass knuckles, or other dangerous weapon without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm less than murder would be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to four years or a fine of up to $4,000, or both.3 With a prior conviction for violating the above prohibition, regardless of aggravating factors, the person would be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to eight years or a fine of up to $8,000, or both.