Provides that anyone who assaults any law enforcement officer or employee with a deadly weapon while the officer is performing his or her official duties is guilty of first degree assault.   Official Text and Analysis.

Removes the provision that an assault with criminal negligence, causing bodily harm to a correction officer, law enforcement officer, or other employee of a law enforcement agency performing official duties at the time of the assault is an assault in the second degree; removes "other employee of a law enforcement agency," but adds "community correction officers"; adds employees responsible for the supervision of a sentenced offender in a detention facility to the bill; and adds a requirement that the person knew or should have known that the victim was a corrections officer, law enforcement officer, or community corrections officer.