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Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine), Assemblymember Carlos Villapudua (D-Stockton), Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach), and San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar announced legislation to create sentencing enhancements for violent crimes targeting schools and places of worship.
Senate Bill 699 creates two sentence enhancements for specified felonies attempted or committed at schools or houses of worship.
- 2 – 4 year enhancement for the commission, or attempted commission of the various felonies at a school or house of worship, including: manslaughter, mayhem, kidnapping, robbery, carjacking, and rape.
- 10 year enhancement for the commission, or attempted commission, of murder at a school or house of worship.
The bill would establish the Alycia “LaLa” Reynaga Act, named for the 15 year-old student who was recently killed by an intruder on campus at Stagg High School in Stockton. The bill also comes soon after the mass shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods that killed one person and wounded five others.
