SB 5299 — Concerning law enforcement officer protection.

ENGROSSEDS-0454.1 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5299 State of Washington 68th Legislature 2023 Regular Session By Senate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Braun, Rolfes, Conway, Holy, Mullet, Torres, Wagoner, Warnick, C.

Wilson)Wilson READRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/07/23.01/12/23.

Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

adding a new section to chapter 9.61 RCW;

adding a new section to chapter 4.24 RCW;

or (c) Assaults a school bus driver, the immediate supervisor of a driver, a mechanic, or a security officer, employed by a school district transportation service or a private company under contract for transportation services with a school district, while the person p.

1 ESSBSB 5299 district transportation service or a private company under contract for transportation services with a school district, while the person is performing his or her official duties at the time of the assault;

or (((k)))p. (l) Assaults a person located in a courtroom, jury room, judge's chamber, or any waiting area or corridor immediately adjacent to a courtroom, jury room, or judge's chamber.

This2 sectionSB shall5299 p.(((k))) (l) Assaults a person located in a courtroom, jury room, judge's chamber, or any waiting area or corridor immediately adjacent to a courtroom, jury room, or judge's chamber.

2This ESSBsection 5299shall apply only:

NEW SECTION.

A new section is added to chapter 9.61 RCW to read as follows:

(1) A person is guilty of doxing if:

(a) The person intentionally posts another person's personally identifiable information without his or her consent;

(b) The person knows that posting the personally identifiable information is reasonably likely to cause the person whose information is posted to experience harassment, bodily injury, or death;

and (c) The posting of the personally identifiable information causes the person whose information is posted to experience a substantial life disruption, harassment, bodily injury, or death.

(2) It is not an offense under this section for a person to:

(a) Provide another person's personally identifiable information when reporting unlawful activity or when providing such information in response to, or in connection with, an investigation conducted by a government agency or employer;

or (b) Provide a person's personally identifiable information in connection with lawful and constitutionally protected activity.

(3)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, doxing is a gross misdemeanor.

(b) A person who commits cyber harassment is guilty of a class C felony if the person has previously been convicted of doxing.

(4) Doxing may be committed in more than one location.

The offense is deemed to have been committed in any location in which any element of the offense occurred or in the location in which the person whose personally identifiable information resides.

(5) Nothing in this section shall be construed to:

Conflict with 47 U.S.C.

Sec.

230 of the communications decency act;

conflict with 42 U.S.C.

Sec.

1983 of the civil rights act;

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3 SB 5299 protected under the Constitution of the United States or the state Constitution.

(6) For the purposes of this section:

(a) "Bodily injury" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 9A.04.110.

(b) "Electronic communication" means any transfer of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photo optical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce.

(c) "Harassment" means a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person which seriously alarms, annoys, harasses, or is detrimental to such person, and which serves no legitimate or lawful purpose.

The course of conduct must:

Be such as would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and actually cause substantial emotional distress to the person;

or be such as would cause a reasonable parent to fear for the well-being of the parent's child.

(d) "Personally identifiable information" means: