2016 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS
TITLE 5.7 - REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT
Section 13776.

13776. The following definitions apply for the purposes of this title:

(a) Anti-reproductive-rights crime means a crime committed partly or wholly because the victim is a reproductive health services client, provider, or assistant, or a crime that is partly or wholly intended to intimidate the victim, any other person or entity, or any class of persons or entities from becoming or remaining a reproductive health services client, provider, or assistant. Anti-reproductive-rights crime includes, but is not limited to, a violation of subdivision (a) or (c) of Section 423.2.

(b) Subject matter experts includes, but is not limited to, the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, law enforcement agencies experienced with anti-reproductive-rights crimes, including the Attorney General and the Department of Justice, and organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the California Council of Churches, the California Medical Association, the Feminist Majority Foundation, NARAL Pro-Choice California, the National Abortion Federation, the California National Organization for Women, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, and the Women s Health Specialists clinic that represent reproductive health services clients, providers, and assistants.

(c) Crime of violence, nonviolent, reproductive health services; reproductive health services client, provider, or assistant; and reproductive health services facility each has the same meaning as set forth in Section 423.1.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 46, Sec. 117. Effective June 27, 2012.)